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From: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multimedia farce
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Date: 23 Aug 90 17:55:32 GMT
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pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com (Pierre Altamore) writes:

   After  reading  a  few article in the August 1990 issue of Personal
   Workstation  I became somewhat pissed at the exclusion of the Amiga
   from  such  articles  as,  "Getting  GUI"  and  "Creation Stations:
   Platforms  for  Multimedia Authoring".  They totally ignored it and
   are  doing a great disservice to all of you.  Please write or email
   these people, they obviously are pretty clueless.


In the defense of Personal Workstation, my impression is that  they've
been doing a pretty good job covering their field within the  computer
world.   While  I agree that the Amiga is the best thing out there for
multi-media (and realized it long before CBM did :-)), the reason  for
not  including  Amy  probably have to do more with the reasons other's
don't include the Amiga in comparisons. Basically that it's perception
in the market isn't as bright as the other machines listed. The market
for ToolBook and HyperCard is much brighter than anything based on the
Amiga, regardless of relative merit of platform capability.

If  you  read  newspaper  reviews of software, especially the San Jose
Mercury,  there  is very little mention of CBM or Atari products.  The
basic  focus  is  the  Mac and PC. The Amiga is normally given passing
mention when multimedia is brought up, but normally not  considered  a
contender. We wouldn't attempt to lay blame on why this is  the  case,
you've all heard me enough.. That's life in the big city.

By  the  way,  the  Video Toaster was also `coming real soon' the last
time I was at an Amiga meeting, in 1987. 

-Jim
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	 Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com  / Sun Microsystems