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From: rmeyers@tle.dec.com (Randy Meyers 381-2743 ZKO2-3/N30)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <8809290745.AA20082@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 29 Sep 88 07:45:23 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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wsccs!dharvey writes:

>So what is it Amiga owners?  Do you want a more powerful Amiga or
>IBM compatibility?

Many Amiga owners have voted on this subject with their pocketbook.
Last December, the Commodore brass visited the Amiga User Group of
the Boston Computer Society.  Someone asked Max Toy why bridgeboards
were so hard to get.  His reply was that Commodore had dramatically
underestimated the market for the bridgeboard.  They had predicted
they would sell one bridgeboard for every four Amiga 2000s sold.  The
actual demand  was more like three bridgeboards for every four Amiga
2000s.  (I may have mis-remembered the numbers.  They may have been
1 for 3 and 2 for 3.)  I don't know if that demand continued, or if
it was just a lot of early 2000 buyers were also interested in IBM
compatibility.

As for me, I prefer a more powerful Amiga.  I think that Commodore
realizes that they need to come up with a new high end Amiga.

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Randy Meyers, not representing Digital Equipment Corporation
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