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From: hummel@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: May Vaporware -- rumors welcome/ re
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Date: 2 May 88 14:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!hummel    May  2 09:32:00 1988


Written 12:42 am  Apr 29, 1988 by SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET in comp.sys.misc:
> An All-in-One Clone?
> Although Commodore's Amiga has been popular with hobbyists
> and individuals, the company is struggling financially.
> Rumor has it that Commodore will try to restore
> profitability with a new line of powerful business computers
> featuring both Intel 80386 and Motorola 68020 (maybe even
> 68030) coprocessors.  - PC Week 5 April

Maybe you (PC Week?) would like to think so, but Commodore has been on the
up and up for quite a while now.  Included below is a clip regarding their
4Q87 earnings.  As for 1Q88, I haven't read anything on it, though the
price of Commodore stock continues to do quite well.

Commodore DOES have a lot of work ahead of it in the marketing area (I
personally don't think the Amiga is doing as well as it DESERVES,
considering its price/performance and the high quality software now
shipping for it.)  Still, demand for Amigas is still quite high and
the Amiga DID restore Commodore to profitability during a period when
it wasn't even being advertised!

They also need to watch their tails; the Mac II (gezundheit) will soon
have graphics as fast as the Amiga, a real OS, and such.  In their favor,
though, Commodore did bring back a lot of the original Amiga geniuses who
were laid off in the slack times.

				Lionel Hummel
				hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu
				Dept. of Computer Science
				University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


/* Written  9:42 pm  Feb  8, 1988 by papa@pollux.usc.edu in comp.sys.amiga */

These are at least a week old, but I am posting them since nobody has done so.
CBM announced the quarterly results for the quarter ending December 31, 1987.  
CBM posted a $27.7 million income on a $281.7 million revenue, a 27% increase
over the same period one year earlier.  Increased revenues were due to 
increasing Amiga sales, now accounting for 40% of the revenue.  Demand for 
Amiga computers outstripped supply.  The sales projections of last July were
confirmed. This means that there are now over half a million Amigas out there.

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