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From:Kevin Twyman
Date:3 Aug 2001 at 21:43:21
Subject:Re: Amiga Inc's AmiWest Statement is here....

Hello Gary,

On 03-Aug-01, you wrote:

>> Perhaps a lot of us have stuck with the Amiga for too long? Ever
>> since C= went down the tube we've heard all manner of Good News
>> (tm) but none of it has ever some to fruition, save perhaps the
>> brief re-manufacturing of A1200s by Amiga Technologies GmbH before
>> they also went to the wall. All we have had are promises and
>> announcements that have come to nothing. We have been turned into
>> an army of hardened cynics!

> AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS 3.9, AmigaDE SDK 1.0, AmigaDE SDK 1.01,
> AmigaDE SDK beta 1.1, Amiga Party Pack, over 2000 registered
> developers who paid money to buy the SDK (these aren't just
> people looking, they paid money to work), over 400 apps -
> games - tools at ftp.amigadev.net for the AmigaDE, contract
> with Sharp and first applications going online now, beta
> programs running the ACM (Amiga Com Module) - Bones - Dianne
> - SHEEP, beta AmigaOS 4.0 programs running for FFS and
> TCP/IP, AmigaOne PPC due out by November along with AmigaOS
> 4.0. All in about 18-20 months.

> "none of it has ever come to some fruitation"?

> OK ... :)

"But apart from that, what have Amiga ever done for us?"

Are you a Monty Python fan, Gary? ;-))

Perhaps I should have inserted, "Before the current owners of the
Amiga" somewhere in the middle of my missive of Doom ;-)

Regards,



Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
A man with an Amiga A4000T CyberStormPPC 604e/233

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...
I want to achieve it by not dying.

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