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   From: screw@you.net   
      
   You know, it's easy to look into the past and blame these people for   
   making "bad mistakes", but honestly who here can say that given the same   
   circumstances they would have done anything differently? I cannot   
   imagine what the computing landscape is going to be like in say two   
   years from now and if I had to make a decision like Jack did would I   
   make the correct one?  Maybe, maybe not, but  doubt that he purposely   
   went out of his way to kill profitable systems for the hell of it.  No   
   doubt the guy is a jerk as a person, but he was a damn smart   
   businessman.  The only two things that he DID do that I think were   
   shortsighted, were not fixing the 1541 drive speed when they caught the   
   mistake and could of, and not engineering the full potential of the sid   
   chip as it had been originally envisioned.  Could you imagine the   
   difference that those two little changes would have made to the   
   Commodore 64 if they had both been implemented on all stock machines??   
      
   Douglas   
      
   :)   
      
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