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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
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Date: 17 May 91 17:01:59 GMT
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In article <1991May16.140513.4946@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
> SO they have the toaster for the Amiga 3000 available do they? Last I heard
> I had to buy an old technology Amiga 2000 or 2500 to put a Toaster in. 

The Toaster is not yet available for the A3000.  However, I don't recall
the Toaster being the point of the entire earlier post.  There are many
products both hardware and software that are available for the entire
Amiga line of computers that allow instant impressive video capability.

> 
> The NeXT box (when it is shipping with JPEG functional which I do not think
> is presently the case thanks to C-Cube!) will do something the Amiga will
> probably never do. Edit digital video on disk. There are lots of other
> things a NeXT will do much more easily than an Amiga, like exist cleanly in
> an ethernet university environment. 

What do you base this on?  I think it very likely that JPEG will come 
to the Amiga.  I would even be bold enough to say that probably sooner
than later.  I really do not see a specail 'feature' in the NeXT that
makes this type of work more 'do-able'.

As far as existing 'cleanly' in a ethernet environment goes.  I would
be interested in your idea of 'clean'.  Amigas have been able to use
'ethernet' since 1986.  Not exactly nor really exciting technology if
you ask me.

> 
> The counter arguments could go on for both sides forever. Different machines
> are more appropriate for different applications, and Amiga is great at NTSC
> video in some areas, but there is often a larger picture that the platform
> has to fit into. 

I agree.  I think there is room for more than one hardware solution to 
problems.  I think this was the original reason for the first 'pro-amiga'
post.  You see the PC-noids and the Mac-freaks (there I said it!) and
their publications _always_ ignore better technology _if_ it is not 
MS/DOS or Mac compatible.  

As with most things what is "best" is often disregarded based on 
market-share, which is too bad.

You as a NeXT owner will get to experience this 'frustration' as
well.  :-)

> 
> I find than your comments are a bit obnoxious sounding, come off the soap
> box for a while, tell us what your preferred platform does well, help when
> help is needed, but don't attack....

They were a bit obnoxious, your comments were not much better.  But,
it does point out that even in multimedia the blinders are firmly in
place all around.

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