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From: derek@rsch.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: amiga
Message-ID: <3117@rsch.WISC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 12:12:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 12:12:32 1987
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I have recently purchased an Amiga computer, in which I am well pleased.
However, I am curious about several things.

1.  Why is the documentation on CLI, hardware, OS, etc, so ridiculously
hard to find?  This seems like stupidity on the part of Commodore.

2.  How many Amigas have been sold so far (how popular is this machine)?
How are they selling now?  Are rumors of Commodore cancelling the Amiga
in the near future founded?  (The place I bought mine "couldn't find"
a Workbench disk to even boot their demo machines, and they refused to
open any software to demonstrate the Amiga's capabilities.  I bet they
don't sell many of them.  Lots of Macs, though....)

3.  Is it expected that hard disks will be available in the near future
at reasonable prices?  How about CD-ROMs?  How much is a SCSI interface?

4.  Is there anyone out there who writes "commercial" software for the
Amiga?  Does it sell?  How many (approx.) "developers" are there working
on software for this amazing little machine?

Just curious,

derek



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