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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BRIT HUME WASHINGTON POST SYNDICATED COL SLIGHTS AMI
Keywords: INVITE HIM TO A SHOW COMMODORE, WRITE YOUR PAPERS OWNERS!
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.202111.833@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 20:21:11 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Section 7 page 10 Chicago Tribune 10/28/90:
( From Washington POST Writers Group )

Dateline TOKYO: BRIT HUME AND T. R. REID

This article quotes Bill Gates, talks about Multi-Media,
touts MACs and uses PC's as a backup for MM platforms.

No mention of AMIGA's ( almost naturally ).

CD-ROMS are linked in as "key" MM engines ( yeah CDTV )
but they say there is no inexpensive CD computers yet!

a few quoetes: ( my comment in parense )

Bill GATES:
It's kind of surprising at first....bu tthere is much more interest
in this stuff in Japan. These companies are putting
a lot of money into MM... ( CA: hint hint! )

Bill GATES:
MM will almost surely have countless other useful apps.
But there hasn't been much developemnt ... because
few users have enough hardware to handle it.

Gradually Gates says we will get to the critical mass where pretty
much everybody has MM capacity in HW. ( COME ON CDTV! 8^))

A mm version of the smash hit OS Microsoft sells for DOS machines
is due out next year. ( you heard it here first - smash my a** )

Back to the Basic Question, then:
Is MM the future...
It sure looks as if the answer is yes, but that future may be far off
unless reasonably priced CD-ROM players become widely available.

end-quotes 8^)

You heard it from the mouth of babes...

CA: Get CDTV out and educate these fools, especially BRIT!

I'd encourage letters to BRIT, your local papers where reprinted, etc