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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga-like PS/2 with MS-Windows multimedia software
Summary: Gee-o Whiz bang!
Message-ID: <1184@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 13:16:22 GMT
References: <20405@usc.edu>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <20405@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>IBM, MICROSOFT SET STAGE FOR STEREO, VIDEO PS/2
>

Gawd! not again. IBM 'steals' ideas from mainstream computers, calls it it's
own, and the press goes for it. Sheesh!

First they take the acronym 'PC' and make it so that whenever you hear the
word you have to mean 'IBM PC'. Then they come out with an 'Enhanced' keyboard
and make the press go ga-ga about how great it is, not one word was mentioned
that DEC had the same keyboard on their 'PCs' and VT terminals for a few years
before IBM. Now they are going to make a multi-media machine, so I guess it's
time for Amiga to hang up its hat and turn over the leadership to IBM. Cuz when
they do it, they will be known as the 'innovators' of this technology, even
though Amiga was there first. 

But one good thing may come out of it:
Now that IBM will support graphics, sound, MIDI, game ports, etc, it will be
slightly harder for them to point at Amiga and cry "game machine". We can just
point back and say "Nyah! Look who's talkin'"

>    "At the moment, the market belongs to Apple", said Richard Shaffer,

Apple????? just where do they come off with that? How many TV shows use Apples?
How many music videos have Apples in them :-). If you look at the visibility of
the two, it seems to me that Amiga has a much higher profile outside of the
standard computer industry. Amiga has inroads in the music business, hollywood,
and a lot of scientific and university applications. 

>editor of the Technologic Computer Letter in New York. But, he said, "IBM
>is big enough that it can come into the game late and still win".

Translation: IBM is *BIG*. They can swipe technology/terminology any time they
want and make it theirs.


Blech!

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