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From: bakken@ripvan.ccit.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Amiga in every home
Summary: Amigans want HW and SW price and availability
Message-ID: <19@ripvan.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 88 13:17:25 GMT
References: <8809131652.AA03961@decwrl.dec.com> <9080@swan.ulowell.edu>
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In article <9080@swan.ulowell.edu>, page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
> Why do Amiga owners want the whole world to own an Amiga?
> Ego massage?  Purchase justification?  Religious zealotism?

Do you personally buy anything for  your Amiga, Bob, or does Lowell?
Probably Amigans see how cheap hard disks and sophisticated software 
(relative to the primitive system) are for
the IBM PC family and realize that this is available only with a large 
installed base.  It also may be an act of great mercy.  They see what a
neandrathal state of computing and productivity owners of most other
PCs live in and they grieve.  I've long held that Intel's segmented
architecture, Q-DOS (aka MS-DOS), and IBM's lack of preparation for 
their PC have cost Western Civilization literally millions of man-hours.
Also, the reasons you mentioned probably are a factor.

> 
> I don't care if Commodore advertises or not.  Let's talk about
> stuff we can do with an Amiga.
> 

I care, for the above reasons.  I agree, though, that we should press
ahead.


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Dave Bakken

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