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From: sbmueller@trillium.waterloo.edu (Stephan Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Did CA screw 1000 owners?
Keywords: opinion no flame really
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Date: 31 Mar 88 03:34:52 GMT
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IMVHO: 

Given the fact that the 1000 and 2000 are very similar machines,
it seems reasonable to me that people can expect them to do very
similar things.  In particular:

CA provides IBM compatibility to all Amiga owners, although 2000
owners have to pay more for it.  True, they get more from their
bridgeboard than they would from Transformer, but it is perfectly
valid for anyone to ask WHY CAN'T I RUN THAT PROGRAM SINCE IT RUNS
ON THIS VERY SIMILAR MACHINE.  Especially since I can't think of
a good reason.  (Except that I don't know enough to tell anyone
why it doesn't work on a 2000 :-)  PLEASE CA, why doncha fix the
darn thing and sell it to 2000 owners.  You don't often go wrong
giving the consumer what he asks for.  In the case he ain't asking
for IBM compatibility, he's asking for the TRANSFORMER, specifically.

Also

It seems reasonable for 1000 owners to be annoyed that CA seems
to have 'abandoned' their machine, (I know, I know they haven't
abandoned it, but you know what I mean, things like not letting
'em upgrade to the new chips, and the sorts of things that some
dissatisfied 1000 owners have beefed about) since (to me) it
seems that it would be EASY to keep 'em happy.  Sell 'em the darn
chips.

My point is this:

Can you believe it?  The fact that the 1000 and 2000 are similar is causing
problems?  Maybe CA should have made the 2000 radically different :-)

Me?  I've got a 1000, without EHB (it's gonna be a collector's item someday)
and I like it just fine thanx.

But then, who cares?

Until next week, when I complain about why NewCLI and CLI don't do the same
thing.  (But then, 5 minutes with NewZAP and this is easily fixed.)

APD: |~
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