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From: schwager@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Questions about Amiga future
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 16:23:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 16:23:00 1987
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!schwager    Dec  7 15:23:00 1987


>  
> > Am I being hopelessly optimistic?  CA leapfrogged everyone's PC when they
> > introduced the Amiga 1000.  I'm considering upgrading to a 2000, but quite
> > frankly, unless I think CA has a committment to improving their machines
> > and keeping up with the rest of the world, I'll just use it until it gets
> > old and then go with a machine that is going to be able to keep up.
> 

Hmmm... maybe it's just me, I dunno.  The way I see it, C-A comes out
with the A1000 in 1985, moving ahead of the state of the art in low-cost
computers.  Now two years later, they come out with 1) the same machine
priced low enough so that (my prediction) it becomes the Commodore 64 of
the late 80s, and 2) An (arguably) upgraded, easily expandable version of
the same  machine with the features designed to make it a serious contender
in the Business and Professional fields (a sad but necessary step, adding
the PC compatibility).  Meanwhile, IBM and Apple come out with improved
machines that reflect the state of the art.  I've got no problem with
that, since the next machine Commodore comes out with, if it's any
improvement at all on the Amigas we have now, will be another jump *ahead*
in the state-of-the-art.  I expect that "the machine that is going to be
able to keep up" will be made by Commodore.  I'm talking personal
computing here, by the way- heck, if I had my druthers, I'd have a Sun
3, or maybe an Apollo... or wait, Cray, yeah- that's the ticket!  A
Cray, yeah....

I chuckle every time I demo my $600 micro to my computing friends...
...window to background, window to foreground, xmodem... receive
binary... begin download, *click* window to background, "Hey, what are
you doin?!" "Well, this ain't no PC fer crissakes! I'm not going to sit
and wait for that thing to finish when I can do something else (sly
grin)... wanna see a cool demo?  Play a game, perhaps?"
-mike schwager
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