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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga - what *is* the machines market definition?
Message-ID: <6908@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 21:44:32 GMT
References: <2831@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <2831@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer) says:
> Keywords: marketing, market definition, future

> In this case, I truly want to hear from the trenches.

> 					Rick Spanbauer
> 					SUNY/Stony Brook

I guess the point Bob was making earlier is that the average Amiga user most
likely isn't on usenet, or for that matter bix.  We in the engineering
trenches don't know where Commodore proper is necessarily targeting Amigas,
though perhaps the best measure of that to the outside world at lest (eg,
anything you can learn without getting a response in "market.info" on BIX)
would be where Commodore's advertising.  Which seems to currently be in music
and video specialty magazines, though there was one I haven't seen reportedly
in a marketing specialty magazine.

As for what WE on usenet use them for, I can certainly answer for myself.  I'm
using an A2500 class machine right this moment, at work.  I have a serial line
out to cbmvax, where I'm writing this, and a serial line out to another VAX
computer where I'm currently waiting for a chip simulation to finish.  Each of
these serial lines is backed up by an instance of the ATalk-III terminal 
emulator in VT100 mode.  When the simulation finishes, I send the ASCII output
to a program I wrote on the Amiga which will display the output of the 
simulator in graphic form, allowing me to pan and zoom about within the set
of captured waveforms.

At home (eg, the hobbiest use instead of the professional use, I guess), when 
I'm not doing work-work at home, I use my Amiga about 85% for writing C and
C++ code, 5% for word processing type stuff, 5% telecommunications, and 5% 
miscellaneous stuff.


-- 
Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"
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              Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession