Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!mmdf 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 Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 66 >> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. Crone Vice President, AURA, (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.) (Regina, Sask. Canada ) (eh???) CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET ....uunet!mcl!cronejp come on now.... does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say? --------------------------------------------------------------------