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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 + Amax == Ii
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Date: 22 Oct 90 08:22:07 GMT
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Just to clear up a few elements of misinformation...

.info magazine is a mass-market magazine, indistinguishable in
quality from any, is produced on the Amiga and is nearly unique
in performing *all* integrative and layout functions inside the
Amiga, outputting directly to film, and printing with no further
assembly work.

Stop saying the words low-end.  They date you.  The Video
Toaster,
to name one product in particular, is the full broadcast quality
equivalent of roughly $60,000 of video production hardware plus
boasts features unavailable without Pixars or the like.  Even
in pre-Toaster days, Amigas ran entire broadcasting television
stations.  The toaster just integrates the production more
thoroughly.  In DTP Amiga's no slacker either... I read the
BYTE product comparison and have used Mac DTP software--Amiga's
stuff more than holds its own.  I was surprised at some of the
tasks that are considered difficult on Mac/PC platforms; true
multitasking becomes sort of addictive after a while.
Amigas put together the victorious Atlanta Olympics proposal
where
Mac IIfxs had been tried and had failed.  Amiga bus bandwidth is
the widest in the PC industry--you can't run full-motion 24-bit
video at SuperVHS quality from a hard disk through a Mac.
For traditional business apps, that's just software, we've got
plenty and more comes out each month.  If a person needs to do
X right now with a computer, and X is avil

available only on Y, then by all means buy Y.  But for a general
purpose computer boasting unparalled power, price, flexibility,
and user-configurability and control, you can't do better
than Amiga.

I keep up on the news from the whole industry, and am sure that
those of you who want to hear Amiga news will read
comp.sys.amiga.* and don't need me posting this here.  But if
people insist on posting incorrect information we will correct
it as a service to the public, as the NeXT groupies have been
kind enough to do in c.s.amiga.

Cheers
Thom