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     VIScorp can't deal effectively with Phase 5 or Pios until it defines
 a mission for the Amiga. You can't know how Phase 5 or Pios fits into a
 plan until you have a plan. VIScorp needs to think about it's core business.
 What are the future needs of the set top box technology?
     Voice recognition? Expanding the set top box concept to include home
 security, or even home automation functions? All these things will require
 hardware/software advancements that the Amiga computer will need to be the
 test bed for. Viewed from that perspective then you can go to Pios & Phase 5,
 and say "This is where we are going, we want to know how you can help us,
 and how we can help you in return". Business has to be a win win deal for
 all parties, but VIScorp can't know how companies can mutually profit until
 they know where they are headed themselves.
     If you had to pick on thing that killed HighToro, CBM, and Escom, I think
 you could make a good case for NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT
 WHAT BUSINESS THEY WERE IN! There is nothing wrong with the set top box
 as a starting point for a new Amiga inspired technology. So lets cut the
 *and start makeing some money! There is nothing like money comming
 in the door to get everyone focused on a common objective. After deciding
 what business they are in and finalizing the purchase of the Amiga
 technology, the bigest priority has to be to get some product (any product)
 out the door and in the stores. You have to stop being a startup company
 sometime. Wowing the investors is best done with solid sales figures not
 glowing stories of pie in the sky by and by.

Aloha! To all readers :)

An old American Indian way of defining a problem and its solution for all
the Indian tribes may be the best way for VC to incoperate; and it goes as
follows:

All the Indian tribes each huddled at first separately.
Within each tribe, each individual stood up and spoke his views.

When all had spoken,
various idividuals attempted to summerize what had taken place;
then the best summerizery was voted in, and chosen as the one to
report it at the ALL Indian tribes meeting that followed. Here again all
the sumerizers reported their summeries and various individuals stood up
to summerize them.
Then the best summery was voted in by all the tribes. THEN THAT WAS THE
DIRECTION ALL THE TRIBES TOOK!!!!
Listen Visp to this old wise way, for it is superior to Democracy IMHO.
:))))
Aloha! Richard

Gerald R. Everett said VIScorp,Pios,Phase5 ... did anyone listen?
 GRE>     VIScorp can't deal effectively with Phase 5 or Pios until it
 GRE>     defines
 GRE> a mission for the Amiga. You can't know how Phase 5 or Pios fits into
 GRE> a plan until you have a plan. VIScorp needs to think about it's core
 GRE> business. What are the future needs of the set top box technology?
 GRE>     Voice recognition? Expanding the set top box concept to include
 GRE>     home
 GRE> security, or even home automation functions? All these things will
 GRE> require hardware/software advancements that the Amiga computer will
 GRE> need to be the test bed for. Viewed from that perspective then you
 GRE> can go to Pios & Phase 5, and say "This is where we are going, we
 GRE> want to know how you can help us, and how we can help you in return".
 GRE> Business has to be a win win deal for all parties, but VIScorp can't
 GRE> know how companies can mutually profit until  they know where they
 GRE> are headed themselves.
 GRE>     If you had to pick on thing that killed HighToro, CBM, and Escom,
 GRE>     I think
 GRE> you could make a good case for NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION
 GRE> ABOUT WHAT BUSINESS THEY WERE IN! There is nothing wrong with the set
 GRE> top box as a starting point for a new Amiga inspired technology. So
 GRE> lets cut the *and start makeing some money! There is nothing like
 GRE> money comming  in the door to get everyone focused on a common
 GRE> objective. After deciding what business they are in and finalizing
 GRE> the purchase of the Amiga  technology, the bigest priority has to be
 GRE> to get some product (any product) out the door and in the stores. You
 GRE> have to stop being a startup company sometime. Wowing the investors
 GRE> is best done with solid sales figures not glowing stories of pie in
 GRE> the sky by and by.

Please remember that this was the strategy that ATG was using, define the
mission, get some product out and some money in, do the R&D, get more
product out/ money in.

I have not seen anything concrete from VisCorp as far as a mission staement
for the Amiga. Sad but true. We can't even say that all we've seen are
vapor/words. We've heard/seen nothing so far about desk top Amiga's from
VisCorp.

Hopefully VisCorp will realize before it's too late that Pios/PhaseV
licenses are a benefit/asset that spells M-O-N-E-Y!!

--
Gary Peake                                          Coordinator

1:106/7511.1                                       *Team AMIGA*
--

Welcome to Hell.  Here is your 386SX with Windows and DoubleSpace.

I think that I may have discovered a rather * problem with MUI.
All of the gadgets of the type (I don't know what MUI calls this type)
that you'd see say at the bottom of
the AirMail msgbrowser (such as Reply,Delete), at the click jump to
buttons along the top of the Voyager or along the bottomof the
MUI preferences editor (SAVE,etc.), all of that style of gadget
button, almost never responds to a left-button click from a touch
tablet running with the TriMedia AccuPoint driver software.
I haven't checked things out completely but I don't seem to have any
trouble with any other type of MUI gadget. I have no problem with any
stock OS gadgets or with any ClassAct gadgets that I've tried so far.
The style of MUI gadget that I mentioned above however does appears to
contain an extremely serious bug though.
I'm running MUI 3.6.