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In article <5213@amiga.UUCP> jimm@superman.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> (Peter da Silva) writes:
> )> If you don't mind, then don't upgrade your machine. 
> )Of course I bloody well mind.
> Then don't upgrade your machine.

That's a bit of a non-sequiter.

Look, the 128K mac was a botch. The Amiga 1000 isn't. There's no technical
reason you can't support AmigaDOS 1.4 on the 1000... and even make a profit
on it by selling kickstart tower upgrades or whatever. I'd be happy loading
part of kickstart into unprotected memory if that was what it took. But what
I seem to be hearing, here, is that 1.4 won't run on the 1000 because you
don't want to bother doing it, and if I don't like that I can fork over another
$1000 for an Amiga 2000. If I had that kind of discretionary budget I'd
already have bought a 2000 straight off.

If I'm hearing wrong (and I Iasked this before with no response) why don't
you post the straight poop on 1.4 and set me straight.

> What a crock, Peter.  You can look at this *second* opportunity to upgrade
> your machine and declare that C= can't be serious about treating the A1000
> owners fairly?  Give me a break.

I, personally, haven't had *any* opportunity to upgrade my machine. Money is
the root of all evil and all that, but it's also handy to have lots of. I've
done my part for Commodore: sticking up for the Amiga, helping to sell it,
putting in my time to produce PD utilities, and so on. And now you're telling
me I can't upgrade to 1.4, right? Is that what I'm hearing?

> And I miss the part where trading in for an A500 is more serious than
> trading in for an A2000.  Is it serious because it would be "free"?

I don't expect it to be free. I'd pay a couple of hundred for it. It's serious
because it's affordable.

> How's that ol' Mac 128K working out for you?  Running hypercard on it?

I'm not running 1.3 on a 256K Amiga, either. telling me I can't run 1.4 on
a 2-4 megabyte machine (depending on the fate of my RAM card) is pretty cold.
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