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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 debuts in Paris
Keywords: More info...please!
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Date: 16 Feb 90 20:42:33 GMT
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In article <7460@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ln63wkp@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Viet Ho) writes:
>                     A3000 DEBUTS IN PARIS!!!!!!!!!
>  Hey how come I don't hear anyone on Usenet mention aboout this
>in the past two days?   

Generally because all of the information given out at the Paris 
developers conference was supposedly under NonDisclosure, meaning
that CBM could sue you if you talked about this product outside
of the conference. 

Now it may seem like a great service to tell the world about some
fancy new machine that CBM is working on, however what no one knows
is A) How much Commodore can build it for, and hence what to sell
it for, and B) When all the things that need doing like manuals,
FCC certification, testing, ROM fixes, etc will be done.

So that means that we don't know when this fancy machine will be
out or what it will cost. 

So what if some naive user comes out and says "Well I would buy an
Amiga but I'll wait for the 3000." WHAT IF IT NEVER COMES OUT!?
That is one less Amiga owner in the world, and that hurts everybody.
There were no product announcements from Commodore to the world at
DevCon, there was just some information being exchanged between the
company and the developers WHO HAVE A NEED TO KNOW. You see the
developers who want to ship product on the box have to start right
now if CBM plans to ship it anytime within the next TWO YEARS. 

So the reason you don't here anyone chatting up the 3000 in these
newgroups is because there is no such thing as a 3000. You can't
buy one, neither can I, and neither you nor I can say when some
third party might be able to buy one. That means pining away for
one won't help. The only truthful thing you can say is the 
CBM is continuing to move the Amiga family forward and this is
a Good Thing. That, at least, should allay any fears as to the
viability of the company itself.

--Chuck McManis
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