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#Price Cuts?

    22-Feb-91 13:34:21
Sb: #15554-#Price Cuts?
Fm: Tim Devlin 76217,1372
To: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
Well, I simply have to disagree. If the Amiga came PC compatable I feel CBM would sell alot more of them. Many people need/require PC compatiblity but really like the Amiga. CBM may not have sold that many BB (I don't know if they have or not) but I think the Amiga would have done alot better had it been PC compat. from the start, or at least from the 2000 on. Most people don't even relise that there IS a PC option for the Amiga due to it not being well published/known etc. When I tell them that YES it can run PC software with a card, they are suprised, the next question they ask often is…is it 100% compt? followed by, does it run as a 386 and have VGA? This is where I loose them. I don't know why soooo many people like/want need 386 speed, but as the 386 far outsells the 286 PC's now I would say that most of them do, or feel they do. If that is due to what they have been told they need, or what THEY actualy know they need is not the point the point is, thats what they want, and if the Amiga don't have it, they don't buy it! Tim