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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting over a major hurdle
Summary: Amiga for multimedia, not those other machines!
Message-ID: <327@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 23:46:16 GMT
References: <794@sagpd1.UUCP>
Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida
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In article <794@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
....
> 	The response (quoted without permision) is as follows:
> 
> 	"The Author replies: Without a question, the Amiga is an outstanding
> multimedia platform with a loyal following, especially in the creative arts.
> However, like it or not, multimedia will have to be available on the so-called 
> 'standard' platforms from IBM and Apple in order to be widely accepted by 
> bussiness and industry. That was the focus of the article."
> 
>     I guess as long as authors/Editors have this attitude the rest of the
> computer world might as well close up shop and quit. :) I wonder how the other

Is this one of those "self-fulfilling prophesies", where if people believe it
then it's true?  (In other words, if you keep telling yourself that Amiga can't
do it, then even if it can, you'll never try, and as long as you don't care
to prove, then it might as well be true.... ok, well, excuse the run-on, but
you get the idea... :-)

Geesh, that's a brutal attitude to have, though!  Grr!  (Flame!  Flame!)

> contenders in the multimedia race feel about this????
> 
>     Send all flames to where they will do some good (like to editors)
> I know where my k key is.

I have an interesting idea: it seems to me that the best way to combat this
kind of attitude is to present such evidence that it makes the person who
holds the above views look very stupid for not looking at the Amiga.  Taking
this a step further, wouldn't it be neat to send to the editors of this and
similar magazines a videotape showing actual work, perhaps of something which
does everything mentioned in the article, and then some.  Then again, some
people will never care (hmm, I have had a hard day ;-)  I usually am more
optomistic :-) ).

Another idea: those who know how to do this stuff on the Amiga could write
an article on the same topics, but just from the Amiga point-of-view.  Perhaps
the magazine would publish it if it were done well?

> 
> Monty Saine

Gary Wolfe
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