CompuServe Messages

Steve, You hit the nail on the head! I demo'ed my A2000 twice to co-workers in a PC-centric corporation. In both cases, they were impressed. I currently have an A2000 set up at work in the midst of my 4 PC's. Even computer professionals are amazed at what an Amiga can do. Commodore's invisibility meant: 1) That "computer professionals" asked the infamous "What's an Omega?" question; 2) There was no "mainstream" hardware and software support; I have no way to connect the Amiga into a token ring network, for example; 3) It allowed Microsoft to convince the entire computer industry that their way was the ONLY way to do things. Not only is that not true, but it is in many cases the WORST way to do things. As a senior analyst with a utility company, had Commodore succeeded in convincing corporations to use the Amiga, my personal productivity would be double! Instead, I have to call meetings with participants from 4 states to decide where to put 10KB of device drivers on 5th generation 32-bit hardware, and I have to locate 170 file servers with over 500 volumes, and over 20,000 directories with 21 drive letters (the first 5 are reserved for local use), and describe hundreds of millions of files with 8-character names. I have a 64-bit Pentium file server with 128 MB RAM and 14 GB storage supporting 250 users and I have exactly the same number of expansion slots as a 1985-vintage PC-AT! "Who could ask for anything more?" All of this would be lifted from my shoulders if Commodore had taken corporate markets (or any other, for that matter) seriously. Tab Tab Trepagnier