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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 02:56:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 02:56:40 1987
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In article <5829@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes:
<The Amiga is doing well, the new version of the OS comes out, and
<Everybody is expected to move to it.  It only costs $15 which just
<about covers Commodore's costs of shipping.  So, here is the new
<operating system, the old one is outdated, and as such unsupported,
<and that is good.  All developers know to make their software run with
<this OS because they know that Everyone will have it.  They can make
<no other assumptions.  The Amiga is multitasking, you can only run one
<version of the OS at a time, there is not much chance that we will be
<running an old OS, especially if program disks come with the new version. 

Right - CBM has done very well in that regards. Not as well as Apple
with the Mac (where the upgrades are free, and dealers have to give
them away), but very well.

But Apple got into a morass anyway. Because they released hardware
that wasn't compatable with older versions of their machines. Gee,
guess what path CBM has just started down.

	<mike
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