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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Message-ID: <20803@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Apr 91 05:10:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> <20725@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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:

>>>  There's an interesting tidbit of news in this week's MacWeek magazine.

>>>"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)! 

Indeed.  The gang from Kansas is clever, but they didn't invent this.  This is
a common technique.  Look it up under OEM.  

Another industry example: the Mentor Workstation, upon which the A3000 and
various other critters were designed.  Mentor designed this workstation like
this:

	- Take one Apollo Workstation
	- Add three Mentor nameplates, for keyboard, monitor, and box.
	- Add cool Mentor software
	- Sell the box as a Mentor workstation

Sound familiar?  It should.
-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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