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From: oleg@pnet01.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Pearls
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Date: 28 Mar 90 09:16:08 GMT
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Wow. As I sit here and read pearls of wisdom from J. Abbey, M. Barret et al, I
keep reminding to remember their messages so that I could tell those poor
fools in my hometown who use Amigas to make a living that they should just go
ahead, take sledgehammers and smash their CPU boxes into oblivion. Hey folks,
you are using An Obsolete Machine. Can YOU spell O-B-S-O-L-E-T-E boys and
girls? Good, I knew you could.  Now to tell all of those silly little fools
making genlocks, frame grabbers and doing software packages like Broadcast
Titler and ProVideo gold as well as DigiPaint3 that they are all wasting their
time on an antiquated machine, unusable for professional applications. Well Mr
Abbey and Mr Barret, to steal a phrase from Mark Twain, "rumours of Amiga's
death have been greatly exxagerated" Take a look at February's BYTE, guess
which computer gets a very nice mention in the discussion of multimedia? The
Amiga was built as an ultimate PC graphics platform. I don't think that
$15,000.00 or so that the latest Macs cost qualifies them as PCs. Hell, If
we're talking about that kind of dough, I'd get a Sun. With the release of
Amiga Unix (incidentally the latest version, not the antique in A/UX on the
Macs), there will be Amigas to compete of the workstation level, but more
importantly, there will still be FULLY expandable, consumer priced platforms
(the base 2000). It sure doesn't look like anything under a Mac II (including
the SE/30) will have a chance when System 7.0 gets here. Too bad for the
useful idiots who bought Mac 128, or Mac 512, or Mac Plus. As for the paucity
of software, why don't you go ahead and check to see how many years passed
before anything useful came out for the Mac. 
 Just a few kind thoughts.
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