Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2090 HDdisk.device
Message-ID: <1196.AA1196@heimat>
Date: 2 Jul 88 05:30:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <644@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:

>In article <10174@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>> Commodore did post it on BIX in the public Amiga forum. They ARE responsive
>> to these things.
>In the first place BIX costs quite a bit of money. In fact, the last time
>looked you had to suscribe to the damn magazine. I doubt that every user's
>group has at least one suscriber to BIX. It seems to me Commodore must try
>to be present on as many national BBS's as possible.

   I agree that out of the major commercial database services, Bix is one of
  the more costly. But hey what isnt expensive today? I dont think the cost
  of BIX alone can be used as a point of comparision, alot of other items
  (like the people answering the questions, the amout of time it takes to get
  an answer, ect) weigh heavly into making BIX either worth the money for you,
  or too expensive. Of course its highly unlikley that 1 person from each user
  group has access to BIX, but it is also highly likley that 1 person in each
  user group has access to one of the other commercial database services. It
  seems to me that you may have forgot that CBM is on BIX to support the Amiga
  Developer. Any support they give on UseNet, other commercial database(s), or
  a BBS is purely above and beyond the call of duty! Files (like HDdisk.device)
  spread from one service to the next very rapidly. Also PD disk series like the
  FISH disks (Hi Fred!) offer Amiga users a way to obtain software. So I feel
  CBM is doing a *SUPER* job on supporting the AMIGA and your comments just don't
  hold water.


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