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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AM(iga un)IX
Message-ID: <6371@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 23:10:58 GMT
References: <1366@hub.ucsb.edu> <2426@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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In article <2426@sbcs.sunysb.edu> rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>	cheaper and a bit faster than the 20X0 widget", ie Commodore drives the
>	technology and everyone tries to undercut them.  This is where all the
>	disk/memory people are today.  

This is just my opinion...but on the A1000, Commodore spent its time/money
on Genlocks, Frame grabbers, etc, leaving the memory cards, hard disks,
expansion boxes, etc. to the 3rd parties.  The results speak for
themselves.  (not mentioning quality/reliability .... some of it had quite high,
quality while others were awful, or 'producing what the market wanted') but
rather, who could take it seriously as a business computer when you
couldn't expand the memory or add a hard disk without relying on
3rd party products ?

The bread and butter expansion items have to be available from the
manufacturer for business to be able to rely on them.  A business
may turn to a 3rd party controller or ram card, just like it
may do so when expanding a Sun...but I, as a Sun user, have a certain
confidence knowing that I can get a memory card or hard disk from
Sun, though I may turn around and buy a card from Helios anyway :-)

			andy
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andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

"The salesperson said this computer is the next best thing to sliced
 bread, but didn't say what to do about the crumbs in the disk drive."

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