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In article <8911120232.AA07383@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes:
>In article <119.25505695@metnet.FIDONET.ORG>, Mark.Johnson@p0.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Johnson) writes:
>>Hmmm seems to me that the logic used by the Atari bashers makes that 
>>A3000 a vaporware product too. Seems odd that they aren't crying about 
>>their awful - supportless - lying - cheating C= company like they are 
>>trying to accuse Atari of, eh?

   Until the A3000 comes out, I will call it vaporware.  It may exist in some
forms somewhere, but unless _I_ can get it, it's vaporware.

>I wouldn't label the A3000, or even Amiga UNIX (AMIX), as vaporware.  Amiga
>UNIX is, in fact, in functioning existence as we speak, and was demoed
>recently at some UNIX convention.

   I've seen many things demoed at computer shows.  I saw a nameless PC 
supposedly running some software, when in actuallity there was a VAX behind
curtain #1 running the demo.  Appearance at a ComShow is hardly a guarantee
that the product exists.  I made the mistake of pre-ordering a software
package at a show (yes, I saw it run) and found out later it was probably
6-12 months 'til shipping.

>Naturally, nobody in this newsgroup really cares what happens at Commodore.
>This is an Atari group.  I'm an Amiga person (see .sig), and I just dropped
>in to see what you people were doing with your machines, so that I might
>make more intelligent conversation... This was the first article I saw.
>It's sad, really, since this kind of brand-prejudice is totally non-
>productive and has helped us all to come to live in an IBM-dominated world.

   Not true at all--I care a lot since I may very well buy an Amiga.  I'll
still keep my ST, it's a cool machine.  But being able to put in a BridgeBoard,
68030 @ 25-33MHz, MultiPort serial board, easy GenLock stuff, etc. has pushed
me to buy a Commodore (something I swore I would never do when I saw the Vic-20)

   And I don't think loyalty to Atari pushed us to domination by Big Blue.  In
fact, just the opposite--our tolerance of Atari has _kept_ Big Blue from
totally dominated with their antiquated machinry.

   I'll probably end up buying an Amiga 2500 w/ accelerator, bridgeboard, a
25NHz 386 for Unix (unless Commodore's is good), and keep a decked-out ST.
The best of all worlds.  An ATW is still a possibility, but I haven't heard
back from whoever it was I wrote to in England yet.

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