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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PC Mag insults Amiga
Message-ID: <2779@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 16:15:40 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:

>In the September 11, 1990 issue of PC Magazine, page 89, an misinformed
>"writer" named William F. Zachman talks about why Multimedia is out of reach
>in 1990 financially.  He states "Bringing Multimedia capabilities to the
>majority of office desktops would be an extremely expensive proposition at
>today's prices"  He then says a 386 equipped system would cost over $10,000.00

Er, it is PC magazine, they have the right to stick to MSDOS clones if they
wish. Not every magazine *has* to mention Amiga, ya know. If he was writing
in the context of bringing multi-media to the office on MSDOS clones, then
he has a right not to mention Amiga. Let's not get bent out of shape every
time someone fails to mention the Amiga.
After all, do Amiga magazines mention Macintosh or IBM machines everytime
they talk about something all three can do? No.

Oh but the author is still *wrong* above, you can get multi-media on a
'386 for much less than 10K. 5-6K would be more like it.

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