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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AM(iga un)IX
Message-ID: <88@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 89 22:01:04 GMT
References: <1366@hub.ucsb.edu> <694@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
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In article <694@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
->In article <1366@hub.ucsb.edu> hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu writes:
->>In article <2421@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes...
->>>	Sam, the other side to your argument is this: what if, god forbid,
->>>	Commodore continues to undercut and screw their developers by
->>>	bringing any profitable product in house because it is
->>	(Stuff deleted)
->>>					Rick Spanbauer
->>>					Ameristar Technology
->>					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
->>   While I recognize that Ameristar has made significant contributions to
->>what success the Amiga 2000 enjoys in the low end workstation market, and 
->	< stuff deleted>
->>it always bothers me to hear a hardware vendor complain about how competition
->>is going to screw up their business. There are quite a few third party disk
->	< stuff deleted >
->
->This is true in an industry where the main mother company (like cbm) does
->not consider third party developers as competitors. I have personally
->seen and heard through second sources though that this is not the case
->with Commodore.  Let me assure you that this is not the attitude of all the
->people at Commodore, just some that are in the wrong positions, like
->working there at all.
->   Rick S. spoke right about the products cbm needs to be developing. In my
->opinion, Commodore should be developing products that no third party
->developer can develop. Like a 68020 based A500; (Would make a killer
->X terminal for GfxBase) or a 68030 based a2000 with a real 32 bit highspeed
->bus; A middle line product with 2 slots, video slot, smallish footprint
->AND DETACHED KEYBOARD; a real portable/transportable amiga (maybe beat
->Apple to this market).

Dale, I'm all for the above suggestions.  My original comment was simply that
if Commodore cannot afford to support a Unix workstation properly, then
they have no business in entering in this competitive market, since
businesses are not going to buy a Unix workstation with very little
networking support (both hardware and software).

->Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
->{uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale


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