"However, the Amiga market is quite small and all this pretend Amiga can do is fragment it. We can't understand why any Amiga supporter would want to encourage that. " -- Bradd Webb
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As appeared at the header of AmigaUpdate:
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
We were left wondering about some attendees, however. We simply cannot understand what the MorphOS/Pegasos team was doing there. For that matter, we cannot understand what they are doing at any Amiga show. There are only two things, both bad, that can come out of the Genesi efforts: failure for Genesi or depletion of the Amiga market. If the Amiga community were huge, it could probably support an unauthorized clone system with no problems. That might even lead to additional software, since presumably more units would be sold. However, the Amiga market is quite small and all this pretend Amiga can do is fragment it. We can't understand why any Amiga supporter would want to encourage that. Obviously, there are people who don't agree with us. That's the way of the world, there will always be many opinions about most things. We only hope it works out well for everyone, especially Amiga. We also hope you enjoy this special issue.
Brad Webb,
Editor
T H E A M I G A U P D A T E C O N N E C T I O N
There is one item to add to Joanne's excellent report that has us rather pleased at Amiga Update. Turns out the folks doing the demo of OS 4.0 at AmiWest didn't have a Power PC board available. Fleecy put out a request for someone to loan a board for the show. The person who
stepped forward and provided the Cyberstorm PPC board for the demo just happened to be Justin Webb, the next generation of Amiga users in
our household. The board was shipped out west with plenty time for everyone to make the appropriate installations and have everything set for the show. Once the board has returned and been reinstalled in its original home, no doubt it will be treated with additional respect, being a "showbiz" board now.
We're not sre how it got to be necessary to search for a board for the demonstrations, but we're pleased one of us was able to help out. For the curious, here are some specs on the board used:
50 Mhz 68060
233 Mhx 604e PPC
128 M RAM
UltraWide SCSI onboard
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Who is the doppleganger who has replaced Bradd Webb?
