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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Need Lots of Storage (was: incompetent executives)
Message-ID: <320@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 10:41:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 10:41:47 1986
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> I realize that the name of the division is Commodore Business Machines, but
> I am only vaguely aware of any businesses that use it...

Commodore was at one time supplying about 50% of business oriented micros 
in Europe (CBM series, like 8032, etc.), obviously prior to MS-DOS days.
Their reputation for being a "games-machine" company is really based in the
US market only, and largely due to the fact that the home machines, like
VIC-20 and C64, were the only machines pushed recently in the US.  In 
Europe they still sell many more business-only machines, like the IBM
compatible PC-10 & PC-20, and a business oriented version of the C128, called
the C128D, which is selling quite well these days.

> And the applications, do not seem to be oriented toward finance, marketing, 
> or logistic problems. Paintboxes, music editors, scientific modeling
> packages are the most visible to me.

Maybe alot of that visibility is because the Amiga does those things so well.
But I've seen at least three wordprocessors, two spreadsheets, several types
of financial analysis packages, etc. already, and the machine's only been
for sale since October or so.  

> Ricker
> in Connecticut
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