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From: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga and Video at UNIXexpo
Message-ID: <981@dialogic.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 89 16:31:09 GMT
Reply-To: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ
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AMIGA UNIX
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Good News:
	The Amiga 2500 was at the UNIXexpo in the UNIX International
booth. At that booth, they were about 10 different architectures
demonstrating UNIX System V.4 (Absolutely beautiful OS, I was drooling
over the enhancements)

	The system was a 2500 with 68030 card, tape drive etc. I got
the rep. to tell me that UNIX Release 4 would be out "early next
year."  What I like about this is that CBM will only need to support
V.4 and never have to worry about V3.2 since they are releasing a
version of it (at least that's what I assume. I don't know so for a
fact. Anyone at CBM care to comment?)  I think this is a wise move.

The Bad News:

	If I didn't know better, I would never consider purchasing an
Amiga.  They had the Amy's hooked up to Moniterm monitors which were a
sickly yellow white.  The screen looked like old parchment. No color
monitors. The X-window demo was really lame.  The CBM rep. wasn't the
most helpful. (The demo was a train using ASCII graphics.  Sort of an
old VT100 animations)

VIDEO
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All Bad News:

	Both Sun and Interactive (ISC) were showing video running
concurrently in a window while someone was editting a document.  Sun
was using a live camera and showing real-time video in a resizeable
window while he was doing shell work, etc.

	ISC was playing Cinderella in a window while doing similar
work.  People were walking by and drooling.  People at ISC didn't know
how it was being done. Some consultant set up the system and they
offered to give me the number.  I could get to the front to talk to
the people at Sun.

	It seems obvious other people want to get into the Desktop
video market.  CBM better act quick before these big movers create a
market for themselves.

TIDBIT
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	One company was demoing an animation package that showed a
waterfall flowing using color cycling.  The caption to the screen said:

	"This is not an amiga"

I thought that was cute.

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