Hi Everyone,

let my start by saying "what a show." Now we have an ABM (A or Amiga Business Machine)

I met Trevor , Ben, Thomas, Hans, and Carl and Dale. Jamie, For the first time.

http://www.friedenhq.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=55
http://www.a-eon.com/
http://www.sassenrath.com/

1) They were all impressed with the live MiniMig demo at the table.
2) I informed them and presented the statistics of the Amiga Banner advertising now reaching 1,000,000.00 Million users a year. This was done a 1 on 1 basis amongst a few of the key people.

3) PPC Notebook running E-UAE was also taken note of as a interesting concept.

Jamie's AVD IDE is kick ass, be prepared to buy this kit. When fully released it will be considered to be a must have tool in developing GUI applications.

Rebol on Amiga OS4.x is a very cool
http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0345.html

The SAM460 and X1000's are as real as can be, and usable in their current BETA state.

Still here at the hotel, but must get back to work even though the show is over. I will comment or elaborate a little more during the next coming days if required.

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The Holiday Inn had very clean and new facilities, nice representative and a top notch continental and hot breakfast buffet. Banquet food was juicy and sweet. A Big thanks to Carl for providing their great home grown and fermented wine. Probably strait from their home cellar.

I hope they feel generous and offer better rates for the group next year, as it will be a long running show and great return business for them. To be fair it could be 2-4-6 years of business minimum before people might get bored of such a place.

I would to thank Ray, Bryan Chuck and others for their tremendous super human efforts.
I've got my Amiga T-Shirt now, and it only cost $20.00

More later...

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Care to elaborate on 2) and 3) ? Which banner? which PPC notebook?
Thanks

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PPC on the laptop is more than likely to be a Freescale's power-efficient MPC5121e mobile GT - BUT NOTHING IS CONFIRMED...

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Now we have an ABM (A or Amiga Business Machine)

You are not clear in this. What do you mean?

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PPC on the laptop is more than likely to be a Freescale's power-efficient MPC5121e mobile GT - BUT NOTHING IS CONFIRMED...

BIG WOOPtm Its called the LimePC laptop!

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You are not clear in this. What do you mean?

Don't worry, he speaks pseudo-business lingua.

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@Barana

CBM = or used to = Commodore Business Machine.
ABM = (A)miga Business Machine - or at least it should.

There is more than enough software and emulation to warrant this claim.
So yes - for quite some time Amiga has been A Business Machine.

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meet.mrnrg wrote: @Barana There is more than enough software and emulation to warrant this claim. So yes - for quite some time Amiga has been A Business Machine.

Amiga has never been regarded as a business machine.

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@polka.

Other people claim otherwise.

There have been direct reports from insiders of large business where Amiga has been and is being used in new fields.

If you have major proof of where it was not used, then we can address the why it wasn't used.
Once mentioned and proven that it was never used in a particular sector we can then consider / ponder how we can make the Amiga more suitable for that business sector.

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Pretty sure ABM as an acronym has never been used, but good luck Polka proving Babylon 5 or Disney as two examples are not classed as businesses lmao

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Jamie's AVD IDE is kick ass, be prepared to buy this kit.

I certainly will, I'd love to get into a bit of Amiga programming but find ReAction/BOOPSI horrid to even begin learning. A GUI builder would be a life saver.

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@polka.

Amiga got many bussines programs. Earlier I saw companies using Amiga software like Final Writer, TurboCalc, WordPerfect and other programs. You dont need to buy Microsoft Office to be happy. Amiga programs are great too :)

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Carl's collection of classic hardware software and documentation was amazing.

Even back then there were accelerators and add-ons and software kits / books that were never even advertised to many other countries, so you had to be in close contact with Amiga experts to know what was really possible. Hence "Only Amiga" makes it possible.

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Dude, you rock! You speak just like our prime minister and nobody can understand you! We have elections in 2 weeks, I suggest you come in Athens, asap!

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lmao

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CBM = or used to = Commodore Business Machine. ABM = (A)miga Business Machine - or at least it should.

CBM is an abbreviation for Commodore Business Machines (note the plural form). Commodore sold typewriters, calculators, digital watches, etc. (We all know this.) There was never, as far as I know, a "Commodore Business Machine," so the analogy doesn't quite fit.

If A-Eon, ACube Systems, Genesi, et al can sell boards for embedded systems use, awesome. We can call those business machines.

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@Trev

Thanks for the plural correction (Machines) meaning more than one machine of course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International

Whats surprising is the Classic Parts / Machines sold in greater volume than the NG parts and machines. BUT THIS WILL CHANGE!

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Did Carl have anything interesting to say during your Minimig demo? He did say how much he liked small hardware.

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@Trev

Both Carl and Dale like the MiniMig machines running with a Hard-File and different Kick-Starts etc...

They probably like the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) concept a lot more though.

Seeing KickStart 1.3 on the MiniMig will probably spark a few (ideas) in their heads over the coming weeks / months and then maybe something beautiful will begin to incubate in their hearts. Mainly because they will realize its immense power and potential.

They are aware of NatAmi now also.

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