AO Interview - Dave Haynie

[Mikey_C]

What he's lkely be right is that non of these systems is likely to
become mainstream on dekstops. I have heard rumours of some people
'dreaming' on selling 5 Million Neo-Amigas just like that.

Actually JoannaK you shouldn't believe everything you hear on amIRC. Last night on #amigaworld, I was having an argument with tarbos over the Dave Haynie interview.

tarbos claimed that Gerald Carda is a better engineer than Dave Haynie, since he claimed Dave Haynie is a failure. I countered that given the no's of Amiga's that were sold when Dave worked for commodore, that couldn't be the case.

I also went on to say that I *believed* Dave Haynie was also involved in the AGA chipset, and that I *believed* something like 5 million A1200's were sold worldwide. (I think that's about right)

At no time did I say Gerald Carda was a bad engineer, I do not mean to imply he is a failure etc.  I'm sure he is a fine engineer

In my honest opinion, if 5,000 A1's are sold, it will be a miricle. That's 5 thousend not 5 Million.

Just setting the record straight.

Mikey C

[Mikey_C]

I concede to your superior facts. If they are accurate.

However the point I was still making to tarbos is that The Stuff Dave Haynie was involved in, sold more units than what Gerald Carda has been involved with so far.

tarbos was trying to make out that Dave Haynie is a failure. I was defending Dave. I appreciate that not all MOS users are as short sighted as he is.

That is all I will say on the matter, I was being misquoted by JoannaK into saying that AmigaOne`s will sell around 5 million. This is not the case and I have never maintained that it is.

Mikey C