Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a218 From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga. Message-ID: <4108@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 90 20:29:55 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 26 In article WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) suggests that magazines ignore the Amiga because of its small percentage of market share. This might well be true, but is that really the point? We're trying to do a bit of consciousness- raising here. After all, because so many installations still use COBOL (I do all week long) why should we consider any new languages? For that matter, when the Mac first came out it didn't have a very large share of the market either; what if nobody fought for it then? Besides, don't you think we should counter with the truth when people make claims (or even imply things) such as "IBM/Microsoft invented desktop multitasking"? I'm not advocating the sort of fanaticism that leads to such things as the Amiga-vs-NeXT wars that most of us are now so sick of. But what's wrong with trying to at least make people aware that there are alternatives out there? Isn't that what advertising is all about? I like my Amigas, and I'm not about to crawl off into a corner and die just because it hasn't taken over the whole marketplace. Just my two cents' worth. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP Intel put the "backward" in "backward compatible."