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- From: bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bo Najdrovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: REVIEW: Liquidation of Commodore International
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 6 Mar 1995 20:47:15 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: liquidation, fumigation, lawyers, humor, commercial
- Originator: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu
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-
- PRODUCT NAME
-
- Liquidation of Commodore International, Ltd.
-
-
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
-
- A product that everyone feared would eventually come, and it finally
- came upon us mercilessly.
-
-
- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
-
- Name: Bahamian Courts, with some help from various legal eagles
-
-
- LIST PRICE
-
- Anywhere from $19 million to about $100 million (US), depending on
- whom you ask.
-
-
- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
-
- HARDWARE
-
- Strong nerves.
-
- SOFTWARE
-
- Lots of patience.
-
-
- COPY PROTECTION
-
- This product is protected from successfully operating by a couple of
- fools named Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould. I would rate this copy protection
- as unacceptable.
-
-
- MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
-
- This product has been in extensive testing on over 4 million Amigas
- worldwide. Many users were so exhausted from testing that they just decided
- to sell their machine and migrate to a different platform.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- I never installed this on my system, honest. It just somehow made
- its way there. I suppose you could describe its installation as simple as,
- say, a computer virus.
-
-
- REVIEW
-
- Well, what can I say. For at least a year before it actually
- happened, I anticipated this product's hitting the Amiga market. During this
- time, I almost began regarding it as another one of those vaporware products
- that we Amiga users have become so accustomed to.
-
- When the liquidation finally hit the market, I must say that I was
- quite disappointed. The whole thing was full of bugs, and hardly ran at
- all. In fact, now, about 9 revisions and updates later, it still doesn't
- seem to deliver what was originally promised, which of course was the
- possibility of a capable company manufacturing and marketing the Amiga line
- of personal computers.
-
- Though the developers of this product still seem relatively
- enthusiastic about its possibilities, I am beginning to seriously doubt the
- liquidation's viability in the current Amiga market. In fact, I would go as
- far as suggesting that the market might have been better off without such a
- product being available in the first place.
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- Documentation is extremely poor. If it weren't for a few good
- supplements, such as Amiga Report, there wouldn't be any documentation at
- all. (Kudos to the editors.)
-
- LIKES
-
- I can't say that I like anything about this product.
-
-
- DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS
-
- I dislike the lengthy, seemingly endless proceedings that never seem
- to end, and that every time there seems to be the proverbial light at the
- end of the tunnel, it just turns out to be an oncoming locomotive.
-
-
- COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
-
- Not much to compare this thing to; but if you're interested, go to
- your local library and look up "Pan American Airlines." They were also a
- once-great company that didn't quite make it.
-
-
- BUGS
-
- Full of bugs. Simply doesn't work.
-
-
- VENDOR SUPPORT
-
- None.
-
-
- WARRANTY
-
- None - expressed nor implied.
-
-
- CONCLUSIONS
-
- I would not recommend this liquidation to anyone. It doesn't
- perform as promised, doesn't even work, and it costs too much. It also
- causes many of your fellow Amiga owners leave you for little-endian
- pastures. Stay away!
-
-
- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
-
- This review is Copyright 1995 Bo Najdrovsky. It is freeware. Do
- what you want with it but if you republish it in your newsletter, just let
- me now. My address is bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu. Thanks.
-
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