Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: tsarna@cub (Tyler Sarna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Promises, Promises: ColorBurst=Vapor? Message-ID: <51782@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 24 Apr 91 20:11:47 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 29 In article <11883@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> of comp.sys.amiga.graphics, Bill Gribble writes: > WHAT?? A Mast product not shipping when it's supposed to? What > a surprise! What a shock! ;-) > It's always possible that MAST has changed their ways, but I'll go out on > a limb here and give an opinion: if you see an ad for something cool from > MAST, turn the page and forget about it. They have never shipped > anything but the Fireball SCSI controller, as far as I know (and boy is it > a winner). Anybody remember the Infinity Machine? Its progress sounded > a lot like the Colorburst's. Delay, delay, and still more delay, until > it finally just faded into the past. Of course we all know what the "Infinity" in "Infinity Machine" stands (stood) for: The length of the delay before release. ;-) > Don't worry about the Colorburst: it will never be released. Ever. Well, I am somewhat optimistic, given that the hardware wasn't designed by MAST. On the other hand, what person in their right mind would ever use MAST to distribute their product? -- Tyler "Ty" Sarna tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu "I protest Captain! I am NOT a merry man!" -- Lt. Worf