Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hardware/software mixes.
Message-ID: <1344@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 88 07:13:05 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: C128 a sucess due to Z80??? Hardly.

> >  >Can anyone offer a machine/system of this type that has become
> >  >even a modest success?
> > 
> > The C128. 
> 
> Well, while the C128 is/was farily successful as a Commodore product, it
> is not obvious that the availability of the Z80-CP/M subsystem had much
> impact.  The machine also included an 80-column display capability, faster
 (Further description of C-128's attributes deleted)
 
 I think thats a very fair statement, George.  I know 8 or 10 C-128 
owners; NONE of them use the CPM mode to any degree and most have never
even tried it. Like the PC bus in the 2000, I think it really just 'icing'
- both would be good machines without the feature, but it's a nice enough
feature to a small subset of the people who use the machine to make it 
worth putting in to distinguish one's self from the competition if it can
be done at a reasonable price. I look at the PC bus in my 2000 as sort of
an 'if all else fails' sort of a solution - if through some incredible
abuse the Amiga software market should dry up, the PC bus is there as a
saftey net (albeit a rather hard and unyeilding one!!)