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From: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Comp.sys.amiga on Macs, talk about hilarious!
Message-ID: <5155@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 90 18:14:24 GMT
Reply-To: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
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Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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I agree with Larry that the Amiga and its users could learn something from 
the Mac, unfortunately, when it comes to my latest passion (video) I think
the Mac could learn a lot more from the Amiga: like, price (of both the 
start up system and Amiga or third party peripherals and add ons), ease of
use (believe it or not, it is easy to set up and operate a sophisticated
editing studio with the Amiga) and availability of people and publications
that have years of experience in the field (whereas, Scully and Apple are
leading us to think they have recently stumbled on this new field and are
happy to bring it to us).  Pick up a copy of AmigaWorld sometime that it 
carries one of its many articles on Desktop Video, Video Production, or
Animation and get ready for a shock.  I, personally, get kind of embarrassed
when I look at the articles and the adds for software/hardware versus those
for the Mac.

I love working with the Mac, all of them.  I have, or have access to, every 
version of the Mac there has ever been.  It is the greatest Productivity
Machine a manager could ever have, I just wish it did as much for as little
cost as the Amiga (for video editing and production).

I intend to have two machines in my office at home: the Mac for DTP, scripting,
general graphics, telecomm., etc. and an Amiga 2500 for video work.

Now, for a small flame.  I don't mind discussing the merits of Macs vs. Amigas,
but comments about the people who read/write to various sigs can go in
/dev/null.  Obviously, I read and respond to both (and other) topic areas.
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Richard K. Mossman  {bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!rkm
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