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From: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
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Subject: Re: Pearls
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Date: 28 Mar 90 15:02:56 GMT
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Oleg Rovner writes:
|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

 [boy, yeah, the Amiga is obsolete, isn't is, well, look at this..] deleted

|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

HEY, look, I agree with you!  I wrote in my message that I agreed with
some of Marc's contentions, particularly that the Amiga doesn't have the
level of professional software that the Macintosh does, either system or
(in some areas) application software.  And, like Marc, I believe that
Unix for the Amiga could be a very good thing.  However, I also believe
that with the effort Commodore is currently putting in to the Amiga, and
the generally excellent level of video and animation software and hardware
for the Amiga that the Amiga is really going places these days.  I am
more optimistic about the Amiga now than I have been at any time since the
Andy Warhol interview in Amiga World.  I have had an Amiga since the very
beginning, I love it, and I intend to upgrade it to the best of my meager
resources' ability.  I truly believe it is the best machine for the
average human being.

I'm sorry if my post was viewed any other way.  It should have been
read in this way: Yes, the Amiga has some problems.  The Amiga also has
a lot of strengths, and is getting stronger.  It's an uphill battle to get
the Amiga to the level of use and acceptance that the Macintosh enjoys.
Mr. Copperman has taken some radically intelligent steps to bring this about
and they will quite possibly be very, very successful.


| Just a few kind thoughts.

I have already written far too much on this subject already.  If you'd like
to discuss this, I would be more than willing to carry this on via e-mail.

Thanks.









Jonathan Abbey                    (512) 926-5934 | Amiga Programmer Wanna-be 
jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu        bix: jonabbey +----------------------------- 
The University of Texas at Austin - CS Undergrad | Speaking for myself, at best