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- From: jardarso@dhhalden.no (JARDAR SUNDE OLSEN)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <jardarso.68.722085301@dhhalden.no>
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- References: <1992Nov12.000037.27562@wuecl.wustl.edu> <BxLn6E.8x9@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:15:01 GMT
-
- In article <BxLn6E.8x9@cs.vu.nl> wgkramer@cs.vu.nl (Ewout Kramer) writes:
- >amc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Adam Costello) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- >>If Commodore refuses to release a hardware manual for future Amigas,
- >>they will be betraying their most loyal customers, the very customers
- >>for whom IBM and Apple were never even an option. Commodore should
- >
- >This is the big dilemma. What should Commodore do ? Trying to keep the
- >hacking clients happy will doom them to make computers adapted to
- >game-programming, however trying to get in the market of IBM's and MAC's
- >will surely betray about 80% of the Amiga owners, so that's not the
- >solution too.
-
- Why? "the market of IBM's and MAC's" is the very same market of the likes of
- the A4000: The professional market. Whether it is MM og dtp or whatever.
-
- >>compete by striving to be different from its competitors, not by trying
- >>to mimic them. Compatibility has always been one of the strengths of
- >>IBM and Apple. Capability has always been the strength of Amiga. The
- >>Amiga can do things other computers simply cannot do, but only if
- >>programmers know how the machine works.
-
- [an answer for this deleted]
-
- The only way to be able to develop the OS any considerably lenght further is
- by ensuring that people re following the rules of compatibility.
-
- >>And if none of the above is convincing, consider this: hackers will
- >>figure out much of the hardware anyway, but not all of it, which is an
- >>even more dangerous situation than the one Commodore is afraid of. If
- >
- >Hackers will, game companies won't. What this means is that unlike games,
- >not all demos will work on newer systems, or maybe on none of them.
- >I don't think anyone at Commodore cares about that.
-
- And they shouldn't!! Nobody will spend $, $ and more $ on a computer just to
- be looking at demos. If you buy an A4000 you probably want to do some
- serious work on it. Meaning that if you have spent $1000 on some piece of
- software you would like to have it work on the next edition of the OS too.
-
- >Regards,
- >
- >Ewout
-
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