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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga.
Message-ID: <16633@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Dec 90 16:11:39 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.174951.1555@rice.edu> <49754@cornell.UUCP> <1990Dec15.215451.23153@rice.edu> <1990Dec16.224728.19247@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <1990Dec16.224728.19247@agate.berkeley.edu> labb-2ae@e260-2d.berkeley.edu (Joe C.) writes:
>In article <1990Dec15.215451.23153@rice.edu> jsd@boreal.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes:
>>In article <49754@cornell.UUCP>, johnhlee@piccolo.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:

>IBM may not have corrupted the name, but nowadays when people say PC, they
>usually mean an IBM PC, or more likely, an IBM PC clone.  [...]
>This is not the first time that a trademarked name has become a common
>everyday word; remember Xerox?  That trademarked name has become both a noun
>and a verb in today's society.  Why?  Because everyone was using Xerox's
>copying machine.

And they also used Band-Aids.  

But with "PC", it's different.  Nobody covered their wounds with Band-Aids or
made Xeroxs before those products were introduced.  But people had computers
they called Personal Computers or PCs long before IBM came along with their
original clunker.

>1. PC World is dedicated to all PC's
>2. PC World only talks about IBM and the clones, from 8088 to 486.
>3. Therefore, all PC's are either the IBM or its clones!

Equally circular reasoning can lead you to believe that PC World is misnamed.
The real question is, does anyone really believe that the magazine covers all
computer systems?  I figured it out the first time I saw PC World, up there
on the newsstand with Macworld and Amiga World.  Now, if something called
Computer World or MicroWorld or Personal Computing or the like only covered 
Clones, I would consider it misleading.  PC World, despite it's generic name, 
wasn't, since based on IBM's use of the PC letters, no one would call their 
rag PC World anymore unless they covered IBM and clones of IBM systems.

>In conclusion Mark Barret, the originator of this thread, does have a point
>when he states that the computer industry is ignoring the Amiga.

If a rag like PC World is equal to "the computer industry", then it can be
rightly said that the computer industry is not only ignoring the Amiga, but
Macs, Acorns (hey, VLSI claims to have sold over 150K ARM chips), all 
workstations, minis, mainframes, supers, parallels, etc.

>labb-2ae@web.berkeley.edu


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