CompuServe Messages

It's not the resolution by itself that does it, and it's not just the T-R-Us debacle by itself. The Amiga represents a freak, a departure from the ordinary, which to those of us in this forum represents the best that personal computing has to offer. To others, it is only a side-show, presented by a toy-computer manufacturer, which repeatedly demonstrates its inability to relate to what business wants. A company that does not know even how to market itself. I know that these are unfair-sounding remarks, perhaps to some small degree unjustified, even. Tough. I am getting tired of banging my head against the wall. You can only tell a company for so long that what they are doing is wrong, misdirected, or won't sell, but until they get out in the marketplace, they have no way of knowing whether they are right or not. To me, these days, it seems that Commodore is operating myopically, not concentrating in those areas where they have the greatest _opporunities_, working instead (and slowly, I might add) on solutions that are non-solutions for the marketplace. As others have pointed out, CBM should be concentrating on the basic machine design, improving it with punch to handle a 68040, virtual memory, and expanded display specifications. They have proven capable of good system design, but seem to fail horribly when it comes to peripheral design. Witness the C64, which, when released, was clearly the best computer OF ITS KIND. And then the 1541 drive, which being so slow, condemned the computer to be used by users with low- or non-existent *computing* requirements. Witness the current happenings with the 2090, then the 2090a and now the autoboot fix for that controller. Witness the feelings expressed about the upcoming PVA (heck, look at your own responses along those lines!). Technologically, they should stick to systems design, and license the best of the third parties. –Gabe