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From: ed@plx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga
Message-ID: <596@plx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 11:53:40 EST
Article-I.D.: plx.596
Posted: Mon Apr 13 11:53:40 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 01:16:11 EST
References: <8704120454.AA21439@ingres.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Plexus Computers, San Jose, CA.
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Summary: Amiga 2000

In article <8704120454.AA21439@ingres.Berkeley.EDU>, hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:
> In article <594@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
> >In article <15999@amdcad.AMD.COM>, tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson) writes:
> >> Better yet, leap-frog *everyone* and put in an Am29000.  [ ... ]
> >
> >Oh Great!! now we can use an obscure CPU with our obscure operating
> >system and bizarre Bus standards.  Use your HEAD man! Do you realize
> >how much it costs to jump from one CPU to another?  How many Apple II's
> >do you see getting sold?  Do you have it *IN* for the existing AMIGA
> >product line?
> 
> Although the tone of this posting is a bit strong, I would nonetheless like to
> extend personal thanks to Ed for his very good taste, in that he has finally
> posted something to our group that is not even indirectly abusive of the
> Amiga, and hence is not necessarily inherently offensive to the audience
> here.
> 	Doug Merritt      ucbvax!ingres!hatcher

Thanx Doug.  I'm *REALLY* impressed with the 2000 (Open Mouth- Insert Hat)
My only beef is the lack of an "Standard" operating system.  I can live
with the strange bus since Jobs is doing likewise at NeXT.

The 2000 is everything  the 1000 should have been.  I wonder if the 500
will be such a good idea since it will perpetuate the "Toy" image that
Amiga so desperately needs to shake.

Now, all we need is a port of USELESSNIX and a 68020 card. Apple's
price is too  high as far as the MacII is concerned. 

The question remains:
 
     Will Commodore embrace UNIX?

     -ed-