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From: dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Next Amiga system
Summary: What do Amiga owners want?
Message-ID: <661@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 22:14:04 GMT
References: My previous article in Apple Users group
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	Recently, I flamed an Apple II owner in the Apple users group
because they were complaining about lack of suuport from Apple Corp.
The gist of it was that an 8 bit machine can only be made so fast before
something had to give and the owner would have to move to a more
powerful architecture.  I made a side remark that they couldn't expect
things to be all that much better from other manufacturers.  I cited the
fact that Commodore made the Amiga 2000 with an IBM slot as something
that Amiga users did not want.  I contended that what Amiga owners
really wanted was a more powerful Amiga machine, ie more colors in
normal res-modes and higher resolution with NO INTERLACE.  Someone
replied with a letter that IBM compatibility is a MUST, citing a
Macintosh magazine as proof.  So what is it Amiga owners?  Do you want a
more powerful Amiga or IBM compatibility?  It seems to me that
Commodore's wooing of the business market is a complete flop in this
regard.  If they saw excellent software on an excellent machine some
people might change their minds.  Witness of this phenomena is the fact
that Macintosh owners had MacCharlie from Dayna Corpopration years ago.
Has anybody heard of them lately?

	Moral to this story:  Build a better computer machine, and the
				world will beat a path to your door
				(especially if the machine is cheaper)