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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:57:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Commodore's Reply
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>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:03:00 GMT
>From: Karl Wyer <MEC3WYERKS@TRENT.AC.UK>
>Subject: RE: Commodore's Reply
>
>> *   Commodore is not "killing" the Amiga.  In fact, the company,
>>     and its developer network, currently are working on several
>>     enhancements to the Amiga product line.  Significant product
>>     announcements are planned this Fall at the World of Commodore
>>     show in Pasadena.
>
>Hmm, I don't call the A600 a significant product enhancement.  This
>is a step backwards to the 'game machine' image.

What about the CDTV?  The recent Compute (Amiga Edidtion) did a review
of CDTV, one of the items mentioned was that you could control it
via ParNet from your Amiga.

News about product announcements for this fall have been floating
around the net for some time now.

>> *   Commodore recently signed a sole national distribution agreement
>>     with Merisel, Inc., the world's largest publicly held
>>     distributor of microcomputer hardware and software products.
>
>So how come we only just find out about this?  No information is as
>bad as misinformation, it generates false rumours.

This fact has been announced on the net too.

>
>> *   Commodore recently signed a strategic product reseller agreement
>>     with Digital Equipment Corporation.
>
>So, we'll be using Amiga's instead of Vax'es (NOT!)

I don't know about that.  To me the Amiga is a desktop VAX, something
you could never say about the P.C.  If you don't want to go that far,
then  the Amiga is more capable as a vax terminal than any P.C.
Reasons: for starters, the keyboard layout is alot like a LK201,
notice there is only an oversized editing key on the keypad, and not
the oversized plus key. This is important when using VAX keypad
editors such as TPU.  Also, since there is no num lock key, you don't
have the problem of loosing another keypad key (PF1).  Of course most
pc terminal program re-map these keys.  On the Amiga it was never a
problem to begin with.

Also, has anyone used an Amiga on a eithernet with vaxes.  I feel the
Amiga would be very capable in this role.  For the past few days at
work I have been watching (with amusement) people try to get pc's
running windows to get an eithernet background task to work.  No
go.  Whenever someone accessed the pc over the net, the pc would lock
up.  I doubt if that would be a problem with the Amiga, using as
evidence the existance of ParNet and SerNet (Dnet) for the Amiga.

>
>> *   Commodore, its shareholders, its dealers, its developers, and
>>     its end-user base continue to have a long-term commitment to
>>     the Amiga and its future as a multimedia, business and consumer
>>     microcomputer.
>

And since Commodore is a profitable company, there a better chance
that it will be around.  Computer Shopper once did a survey and found
that over 50% of its advertisers did not last one year in the P.C.
market place.

PC Computing magazine found from a reader survey that the top piece
of MS-Dos software to be deleted and shelved was MicroSoft Windows
in one catagory and OS/2 in another.

After sitting in front of my 286 based clone at work for 30 second
I miss the smooth multitasking you get stock with an Amiga.  For a
computer with 1/2 the clock speed of my work machine I find I can
be 4 times as productive.  I don't wait for my Amiga, it just give
it more to do.  I can't say that about my MS-Dos machine at work.

There is one spec a pc will never see -- a preemptive multitasking
operating system IN ROM!

-Lance
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