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From: CRONEJP%UREGINA1.BITNET@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu (Jonathan Crone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple...
Message-ID: <3718@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 88 17:38:25 GMT
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>>  BTW, I have had my Amiga since day one.  It's sad to see the Amiga's
>>edge wither away...
>
>Me too, I sold mine about a year ago.  Glad I did.  I KNOW those slimeballs
>would be REALLY secretive about an A1000 > A2000 upgrade.  I should have
>known better to think that scummy edge connector on the side of the A1000
>was a bus.
>
thats funny, i haven't had any problems expanding my system
with the system bus on the side of my amiga 1000.

and commodore sure as hell wasn't secretive about the trade up.
everyone on the net knew about it, and nearly every dealer did as
well.

if you're so fucking brain dead that you can't read about it
then screw you.
>Damn interesting machine though.  The sh*t will really hit the fan if
>when Apple drops the price of the MacII.  I suspect that CBM is lose it
>in about a year or two.  Atari won't let Amiga be.  Sam and Jack want
>blood...
>
Fascinating how Atari owned Federated computer stores are going out
of business left and right, how new amiga dealerships are
appearing everywhere, and how major computer computer center distributors
are picking up the amiga (as in outfits that sell only IBM and Apple suddenly
pick up the amiga)
how atari's sales figures are falling through the basement floor in
north america and europe....
>By the way? anybody got sales figures for Word Perfect on the Amiga?
>I'll bet they suck.  Can somebody name a major applications product that
>is selling well on Amiga?  Face it, Hackers buy Amigas. POOR hackers who
>can't afford Macs.  A "Hobbyist's" computer can't expect to compete with
>business machines.  That happens only once in a lifetime.  That was Apple.
Kinda funny how Word Perfect corp has announced plans to ditch the
Atari version of word perfect because of rampant piracy and the fact
that they STILL haven't made their money back on their investment in the
development.

Even more funny that Word Perfect issued a press release last year after
they had been selling Word Perfect for the amiga for a month, to
announce that it was selling so well that they had made back their development
investment already, and that development was going full steam ahead
on their other products for the amiga.
(word perfect library is sitting on my shelf and is running quite nicely as
well in my nice little machine)
>
>
>How about some Mega-ST bashing eh?
>
>-edc-

Nah, its too boring to bash an inferior machine that STILL doesn't
have a blitter.....

jpC
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Jonathan P. Crone
Vice President, AURA,  (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.)
(Regina, Sask. Canada )    (eh???)

CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET
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come on now....  does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say?
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