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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000), shipping RSN
Message-ID: <4929@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 15:20:26 GMT
References: <4012@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <4012@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, Richard L. Carreiro
(rlcarr@athena.mit.edu) writes:

[ lots deleted ]

> Yes, Mr. Casey - you have hit the nail squarely on the head.
> Us loyal A1000 owners, whose purchases helped to SAVE Commodore, are
> now being $%#%$*@#'ed over for our troubles.  I, too, will not buy another
> Commodore machine.  Hell, I'm not going to risk being  burned again.
> . . .

(I would probably be just as well off talking to a brick wall, but I'll try
this once. . .)  If I had bought an IBM PCjr, I would be in a much worse
situation than I am with my A1000.  When Commodore came out with the A2000,
they offered me the chance to upgrade.  (Do you remember IBM giving that
chance to PCjr owners?)

In any market moving as fast as the computer market is, you have to expect
obsolescence in a very short time.  The PC-AT didn't completely obsolete
the PC -- but there are plenty of programs for the AT that the vanilla
PC won't run.  The new PS/2 machines have PC "compatibility" mode, in
which the system mimics a restricted system.  But the real power of the
PS/2 machines will come from applications that take full advantage of
the 80386 -- and none of these will work on the PC or the PC-AT.

It is my opinion (as an owner of both an A1000 and an A2000) that
Commodore has gone the extra mile.

					Steve Rice

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