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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Some praise for what Commodore is doing *right*.
Message-ID: <21739@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 04:55:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 04:55:14 1987
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CBM got fried this week on several fronts.  Let's throw a little
balance into this:


Commodore is supporting the Amiga in a big way.  The A500 is obviously
selling very well, and to customers that could not afford an A1000.
If these people come though and purchase software, the Amiga market
will be bright indeed.

Commodore is working on improving the operating system, the Fast
File System project is one example.  V1.21 and V1.3 Kickstarts
are another.  All the V1.3 rummors paint it as a nice upgrade
indeed.  And it should even support overscan fully :-).

Hardware projects are on the horizon from Commodore.  The A2090
does it's job, but let's hope for boot roms in the future.
Hedely's Highres Monitor sounds really neat (hope I spelled it right).
The 68020+FPU+MMU project is another.  The rummors of another
Live! digitizer are interesting.

And the advertising!  Real advertising.  Especially that A500
video tape, very well done.  Low on technical mistatements and
high on action.  Very persuasive.  Really done "right".

And on that A2000, who cares about IBM-PC slots?  All they take
up is some real estate and all they cost is connectors.  Very
easy to ignore if need be.
(The local dealer must be hogging bridge boards... 18 in stock
while everyone else is scrambling to get them.  Hmmm.) 


Well, darn it, looks like I'll end on a negative note.  Flipping
thought my mail today and I find the A500 software offer which clearly
says:

    "DON'T DELAY...THIS EXCLUSIVE OFFER EXPIRES OCTOBER 31, 1987"

What it forgot to say is, "TIME MACHINE NOT INCLUDED".  Today is
Thursday Nov 12.  Blame the post office, it came bulk mail.

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