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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: C128 Software(?)
Message-ID: <931@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 23:16:14 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.931
Posted: Fri Oct 24 23:16:14 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Oct-86 01:33:05 EST
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Does Commodore plan to expand the "huge" C128 software library?

In article <663@ukecc.UUCP> paul@ukecc.UUCP (Paul Linton) writes:
>Well,
>   I've had my C-128 for almost a year and a half and still haven't seen
>any evidence that Commodore is getting serious about producing or having
>other companies for that matter produce any software for the 128.
>[ Paul J. Linton  (University of Kentucky) 

There is something of a misconception here.

Commodore is no longer in the software publishing business.  In general
they write the system software and provide encouragment to developers to
produce software  for the machine for it's release and until things get
rolling, then it's up to the third party providers to meet market demand.

There is some software specifically for the C128, but many companies have
opted to stick with the C64 compatiblity bandwagon, since there are roughly
10 times a many C64's out in the world than C128.  As of a while back , that
was 5-6 *MILLION* C64's.

-- 
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