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From: akw@osupyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld Expo cancelled (Flames ahead)
Message-ID: <306@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 13:15:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: osupyr.306
Posted: Sat May 16 13:15:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 03:02:20 EDT
References: <6648@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: akw@osupyr.UUCP (Andrew Weaver)
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Keywords: self-destruct stupidity narrow-minded management marketing bean-counters

In article <6648@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>
>Gawd, what an opportunity you have had with the Amiga, and how poorly
>you've capitalized on it!  Where do you think Apple would be if they
>had not participated heavily in things like MacExpo, ADVERTISING, and
>3rd-party developer support?
>
>The only thing you've done right WRT the Amiga (aside from the design
>and implementation of the machine itself), is by continuing to support

Hate to be a NITPICK, but didn't Amiga Computer, Inc., NOT Commodore
Business Machines, design and implement the actual Amiga 1000?

Too bad that Amiga couldn't have made it on its own?

_I'M KIDDING_...no major flame wars here -- its just a nice day in
Columbus to read news. (Yes, I do own an ST.)

>> as sending Diogenes looking for an honest man.  The casualities are
>> many: Atari's 400 and 800, Coleco's Adam, Mattell's various models,

Gee, the last time I checked I still saw Atari's 8bit line selling, quite
nicely.  _All_ models, in fact.

>UUCP:  kim@amdahl.amdahl.com
>  or:  {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,seismo,oliveb,cbosgd}!amdahl!kim

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Andy Weaver                            {ihnp4}|cbatt|osu-eddie|osupyr|akw
College of Business Computing Services TS6471@OHSTMVSA.BITNET
The Ohio State University              (614) 293-1195 or 292-1741
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