From: dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: More AmigaWorld Lies
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:07:30 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Sep3.070214.21249@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   Mr. Barney also goes on state facts that are simply wrong.  

	At least he tries to state FACTS, unlike your 'estimates'.

>He states that 
>there are about 1000 Amiga dealers in the U.S., and there can't possibly be 
>this many.  There might have been this many in the U.S. when the Amiga was at
>its height in sales about four years ago, but things have declined considerably
>since then.  I know for a fact that there used to be six Amiga dealers in the
>state of Nebraska, and that there is only one now; and that there used to be 
>five Amiga dealers in the state of Iowa, and that there is only one here now
>as well.  

	I know for a fact that there are about 10 hardware and software
dealers in Long Island, at least 5 but probably more in New York City,
and at least 4 in Syracuse. That makes 19 for a very small portion of
New York State. The average number of dealers per state is 20 (1000/50),
and we make it in just 3 of 8 area codes of New York State. I am sure that
states such as Texas and California are upwards of 30 or 40 or 50 dealers,
and New York State can easily get 30 or 40. Which makes your point moot
and snoot.

>All
>of the workstations mentioned have an actively supported version of 
>Word Perfect 5.0 available for them, and the Amiga does not;

	I hate Word Perfect. It is a pain in the ass to use and 
they obviously didn't put too much effort into their last Amiga
version...my friend hade 4.1 and it was just plain stupid. I used
it on the IBM machines and thought some of te commands were stupid too.
Any program that requires a keyboard template in order to use it does
not have a good GUI.

>Finally, all of these systems have *SUPPORT*, something the 
>Amiga does not have.

	The Amiga has plenty of support; probably more than any of the
above workstations (deleted), but of course the companies are much smaller.

>(If it did, the original article in the San Jose 
>newspaper would not have been written)

	Phil Robinson did not know what n Amiga 3000 was or what Workbench
2.0 was. If he did, the article would not have been written. Many people
think that the only Amiga on the market is either the A1000 or the A500.

>   My conclusion is that Mr. Barney has attempted one last flaming editorial
>before bailing out of the Amiga community, and has done a blundering job of
>it.  The response editorial by Mr. Barney was filled with more lies, 
>innuendos, and double-speak than the original article, by far.

	And are you not the expert? Maybe you should become the editor of
a new magazine...call it 'Marc World'.

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------


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