Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple... Message-ID: <64409@sun.uucp> Date: 16 Aug 88 17:12:18 GMT References: <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP> <64123@sun.uucp> <8156@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 22 In article <8156@cup.portal.com> DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes: > Jack Strange of Commodore International Ltd (I believe) had said that > Commodore would announce in September a couple of new systems to compete with > the high-end Macs and low-end Suns. > Is Commodore at it again, or what? ^-^ Well you have to understand that Commodore International Ltd, is a different entity than Commodore-Amiga Inc, Commodore Electronics Ltd, and Commodore Business Machines Inc, etc. Basically, the thing you refer to as Commodore is a sort of Hydra where each of the heads know that if they bite off one of the other ones it will only hurt themselves but they would like to bite anyway. And this is a major reason why it takes Commodore the entity to move *anywhere*. Commodore Braunschweig Gmbh already demoed the 2500 at Hannover so no big suprise if they decide to "announce" it as a product. I don't think they'll announce anything as purely vaporous as the 3000 seems to be. (They should want to keep 2000 sales as strong as possible) --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.