Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!tle.dec.com!rmeyers 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 Lines: 26 decwrl!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie! 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. ---------------------------------------- Randy Meyers, not representing Digital Equipment Corporation USENET: {decwrl|decvax|decuac}!tle.dec.com!rmeyers ARPA: rmeyers%tle.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com