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From:Andrew Korn
Date:14 Jun 2000 at 21:13:11
Subject:Re: Stay calm & Amiga Name!

Gary Peake said:

> >I know this debate has raged on further than this, but this the apt mail
to
> >make a point. :) Firstly, I may well be wrong as usual, but I have not
read
> >any firm statement that the very first new Amiga systems from the current
> >Amiga, Inc. will deffinitely be called Amiga One.

> Nor will you until it is set in stone. I am allowed to drop certain hints
> here and a couple of other places about our direction.

So you want to throw the notion around the office various people came up with
here about having a competition for the name? We'd be happy to print an entry
form, as I'm sure would Amiga Plus.

So what's the Amiga Two going to be then? PDA? Console?

> It isn't important that "Gary has said publicly there will be a new Amiga
> desktop computer", just that "someone" didn't like the acronym I happened
> to have used in my hint.
>
> Makes one wonder why people clamor for information if they are going to
> overlook it when it is given. It also makes one wonder about the agenda of
> certain people who know how to read between the lines, see the important
> parts of a statement yet continue to use their talents to provide smoke
> screens and innuendo rather than insight and intelligence.

The problem with taking this sort of thing too seriously is that you are
reading opinions, not hearing thoughts. I'm sure that a lot of people are
thinking "good, that's reassuring" and don't feel the need to write about it.
You will always receive a far higher proportion of concerns or complaints
than comments of generalised satisfaction.

Maybe we should hold a "mail Gary a positive note day". ;-)

> I'll go silent again for awhile and let the list rest from my diatribe.

You lasted exactly an hour. :)

cheers,

Andrew

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