Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!sri-unix!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!vax135!cjp From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga's Enemy: Another View Message-ID: <1768@vax135.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-May-87 16:17:57 EDT Article-I.D.: vax135.1768 Posted: Tue May 19 16:17:57 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 07:04:33 EDT References: <487@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1757@vax135.UUCP> <2287@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <3611@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1291@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 12 Summary: What cheap software? In article <1291@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> ross@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Ross Miller) writes: >...the dealers do not make a significant profit. How can you expect a >dealer to be interested in the machine when he is more likely to make >money selling a clone and the expensive software that goes with it. As far as software goes, is IBM-PC software really more expensive than comparable Amiga software? I consider $40 - 50 per average Amiga game pretty expensive. *Somebody* is making good money out of that. -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp "The road to Hell is paved with good opinions."