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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Summary: Platforms for the toaster
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Message-ID: <475@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 06:43:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr18.043012.19333@grebyn.com>
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Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida
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In article <1991Apr18.043012.19333@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
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> I didn't say (although I see where it would be easy to infer) that the
> Amiga platform was going to dissappear; in fact, I think Amigas will be
> selling many years from now.  I see the Amiga remaining
> successful at the low end, the consumer machine (A500) and CDTV.  I
> think the high end machines have a questionable future.

Why?  I mean, I can't think of any reason why all of a sudden the higher-
end machines should be less popular.  If nothing else, it's inevitable that
people will want to expand in some way, as technology makes the 68000 look
slower by comparison.

> 
> (I'd make a side bet: any new C= custom chips will be geared toward
> improving CDTV.  Faster animation. Better sound.  No better resolution,
> still plain NTSC. More colors. Decompression hardware.  Stuff a CDTV
> device needs. Not designed to support a GUI for business
> productivity, nor a competitive megapixel workstation display, nor a
> departure into device-independent or retargettable graphic model.)

In one of the c.s.a groups, a job notice was posted by a Commodore person
asking for resumes for a position where one of the tasks was programming
a DIG.  I'm willing to bet that Commodore will have such a library, after
some amount of time.  The downside is that I would think it would be some
time before it was widely supported, but I don't see any major problem, or
at least, nothing to cause me to throw up my arms and cry "doom, doom!"  :-)
....
> around a little bit, to see that MacroMind can sell for thousands what
> Commodore gives away free (AmigaVision).  And it's because of a fierce
> resistance to Commodore products for serious applications.  Is it any
> wonder developers leap to the other platforms?

What can we do to encourage the use or acceptance of Amigas?  Anything?
(Doom, doom! ;-)
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>                                                 ckp@grebyn.com      \\ / /    
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Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS                        // Amiga!
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