Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!carroll1!plonka From: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Personal Workstation ignores Amiga Message-ID: <2010@carroll1.cc.edu> Date: 30 Jul 90 06:49:36 GMT Reply-To: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka) Distribution: na Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI Lines: 43 The August issue of Personal Workstation magazine features an article on Multimedia, written by their Senior Technical Editor, Bud E. Smith, with no mention whatsoever of the Amiga. (pp. 52-61) (Note: PW was formerly MIPS magazine.) The Article "Creation Stations: Platforms for Multimedia Authoring," features (get this!) The Macintosh, intel based PCs, and.. the NeXT! This article has a Mac tint to it the whole way through, even to the point of listing the availability "HyperCard-type product" as one of the points of comparison. "Gee Bud, none of these machines have an 'AmigaVision-type product.'":-) At any rate, the Amiga could match or exceed all of these systems as a multimedia platform, and with the announcement of the 3000 and AmigaVision, (on the cover of BYTE, no less) there is no reason for the ignorance of this editor. I urge anyone, and everyone, to write PW about this, it is usually a fine magazine (one of my favorites.) Personal Workstation 501 Galveston Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 To top it all off, There's a letter in this SAME ISSUE, telling PW, that if they had only given the Amiga a closer look in their April issue, they'd have known about utilties such as IconX and IconEd (two things they noted as missing from our OS.) BTW, the April issue, featured an article on Low cost workstations, in which our Amiga was given a sidebar to itself, thanks to GVP, which apparently enlightened PW by showing off an 68030 based Amiga. Just read this article and you'll be ticked off too! Dave -- -----------------------------------------------------------------///-------- plonka@carroll1.cc.edu Dave Plonka /// uunet!marque!carroll1!plonka ARS: N9HZF \\\/// AMIGA -------------------------------------------------------------\XX/-----------