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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 18:59:10 GMT

In article <1991Apr23.171539.4428@cs.dal.ca> graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.045546.18569@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>>	The biggest step forward will be when NewTek releases the
>>interface specs for their board and software so that 3rd party
>>companies (er, make that 4th party companies 8-) can start
>>developing improvements. I can think of a lot of fun things to do
>>with dual 24 bit frame buffers!
>>
> Why would they release the specs on this state of the art board? 
>
	They aren't stupid. They know that their product will
eventually start to lag behind. The best way to prevent that, or
at least improve the situation, is to have lots of support.
NewTek is a small company headquartered in Topeka, KS. They can't
do it all by themselves. Besides, there are tons of little
utilities out there which could greatly improve things.
	Also, since there is interprocess communications, people
can write routines that will link the paint, 3-D and DVE programs
together, if NewTek releases specs. I seem to remember talk about
a Toaster Developers Conference.
	Basically, I think they are taking the IBM route. It is
AMAZING what has been done with such a miserable OS and CPU.
Absolutely astounding. While both Apple and Commodore have held
back to closed systems, fearing competition would hurt sales, the
MS-DOS market has well over 80 million machines and IBMs sales
are doing quite well.

>mike
>
>-- 
>Michael Graham          |"Say you were going to sing in a club tomorrow -
>graham@ug.cs.dal.ca     | what kind of stuff would you sing?" 
>mgraham@ac.dal.ca       |"Something nice...something very, very nice...a song - 
>graham@iris1.ucis.dal.ca| a tune, a ballad perhaps" - Diane Keaton on Letterman


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.