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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Converging systems
Message-ID: <948@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 18 Aug 90 10:20:47 GMT
References: <2090@trlluna.trl.oz>
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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G'day,

AD> In article <2090@trlluna.trl.oz>, aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
AD> writes: 
AD> 
AD> I saw this in the July issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, relating to the Mac 
AD> System 7 o/s.
AD> 
AD> ". Message passing.  Changes to the Event Manager will allow messages to be
me>    [deleted]
AD>  . AppleEvents.  This is an Apple-defined set of standard messages that all
me>    [deleted]

A recent issue of MacWorld (Australia) mentioned that Apple will develop a
compound document archictecture. Sounds like IFF no? 

They will also develop image compression techniques (for multimedia real time
video) that compress up to 90% ! That seems designed to catch up to Intel/IBM
DVI technology. 

Anything happening along these lines for the Amiga?

AD> It gets to look like an Amiga running Arexx, doesn't it?

The compound document architecture statement made me thing the same thing re:
the Amiga and IFF.

The one minor nit that does (although I try to pretend to myself that it does
not) get to me is that statements from Apple _never_ compare themselves/their
products to CBM/Amiga_products.

They'd prefer to say they've invented multimedia it seems. 1/2 :-)

AD> [deleted]
AD> Apple certainly keeps its software suppliers on the straight and narrow.

Software quality/diversity seems to be improving for the Amiga lately e.g. I
have seen announcements in the last 2 months for dBMAN, DynaCADD, PageStream
(v2.0), ProWrite v3.0 ... and this is on top of CBM's A3000+AmigaDOS 2.0 etc
plus the new Animation/Rendering/Etc/Etc wonderful things at Expos!

:-) {'nuff said!}

AD> Allan Duncan	ACSnet	a.duncan@trl.oz

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.