Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucuxc Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA DEVELOPMENT KIT UPDATE: SORRY Message-ID: <148600012@uiucuxc> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 15:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.148600012 Posted: Wed Nov 6 15:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:26:03 EST References: <1038@druxo.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:druxo.UUCP:1038:uiucuxc:148600012:000:1818 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton Nov 6 14:04:00 1985 >Well, I am very dissatisfied with this response. First I heard the kit would be >$300, now they want $400. First we can get a system with external drive, >512k, and color monitor with the kit for a total of $1900, now they want us >to go to a store and pay $2785 for the same thing. I had managed to get >together $1900, now they want me to come up with another $885! With this >price and attitude, I'm not going to be getting one for a while, if at all. >I may even start reading net.micro.atari. Sorry, guys, but this is a bit >much for me. > Any comments out there, from Lavitsky, Amiga, or anyone else? previously, you made a good argument for commodore limiting their (initial) support effort to developers likely to produce important software products. following that reasoning, it would have been natural if commodore had only selected major software houses with proven track records (fortunately, they didn't go that far). consider how your case would look to them... here's a developer who has trouble with a $100 increase in the price of the software and documentation kit, and a $1,000 increase in hardware cost. can such a developer be expected to make many $1000's investment in manpower, etc, for program development, distribution, and support for a finished product? as for the $400 price tag, i don't have any problems with that. a good ibm pc C compiler package by itself will cost you more. if $400 includes automatic updates, a hotline, the developers' bbs, etc, it's a bargain (certainly for a developer, less certainly for the casual user). wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu CSNET: hamilton%uiucuxc@uiuc.csnet USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217)333-8703