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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.123317.27013@grebyn.com>
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> <20725@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 12:33:17 GMT

In article <20725@cbmvax.commodore.com> hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) writes:
>In article <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>>"NewTek Inc.  The maker of the popular Video Toaster, a Commodore
>>>Amiga-based video editing system, will announce a standalone Toaster
>>>that can read Macintosh files directly.
>>
>>It seems that NewTek has decided that betting their company's future on
>>the Amiga platform is not a good idea.  And I think they're right.
>
>Have you SEEN what this "box" looks like???  To Amiga 2000 owners it may
>look very familiar (he, he)! 

When I wrote that, I did not know that the stand-alone Toaster was in
reality an unlabelled Amiga 2000.

But that's just the first step.  On BIX there was a new item that said a
Mac version was under development.  So would this be an Amiga chipset on
a NuBus card?  Would Commodore think of this as some kind of victory?

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