Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia.. Message-ID: <1069.28573333@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 12:56:19 GMT References: <22028@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun11.143911.11688@milton.u.washington.edu> <14192@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Lines: 59 In article <14192@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) writes: > In article <1991Jun11.143911.11688@milton.u.washington.edu> jonwd@milton.u.washington.edu (Jon Wiederspan) writes: >>LETS DROP ALL OF THE AMIGA:NEXT PENIS ENVY CRAP! >> >>This is a channel for discussions of multimedia itself. Discussions of >>platform comparisions are only appropriate if it involves limitations >>placed on a proposed project. Does anyone out there have some RELEVANT >>questions/answers? I'm pretty disgusted with this newsgroup so far. >> Which by the way; includes the multimedia machine -- Amiga. >>By the way, arcTANgent; Haven't you got any friends to play with? >>Probably not if all you do is brag about your Amiga. > > I agree. I happen to be a Mac user and I think it's better than > alot of other stuff out there. That doesn't mean I have to go > around bashing other platforms. Besides if the !@#$%^&* Amiga is > !@#$%^&* hot, then why hasn't it dominated the market? Maybe the > Amiga marketing dweebs are as big a jerks as arcTANgent... > You didn't have too.... and yet you did! Strange logic. I think you can look at the above message and then understand why so many Amiga people are the way they are. You immediately start talking about marketshare and downplay the Amiga because it doesn't have it. I suspect that if you are talking 'multimedia' you might find that the Amiga does have marketshare, though I don't have the numbers to back the claim. With a group like comp.multimedia, you _will_ hear about the Amiga. Get used to it, it may open your formally closed eyes. Amiga's and Amiga owners are here to stay. :-) The Amiga _does have_ very powerful multimedia capabilities. That is the undeniable truth. Lets try to keep marketshare discussions in the .advocacy groups. On the other side, I will have to read about Macromind on the Mac, and the wonders of the various pieces of software for the PC. I, as the rest of the amiga community should, keep an open mind. The point is... be open to suggestion. Marketshare has nothing to do with capability, never has had anything to do with it, and it never will. > -- James > Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory > osborn@ux1.lbl.gov -mark= +--------+ ================================================== | \/ | Mark D. Manes "The Most lopsided deal since ..." | /\ \/ | manes@vger.nsu.edu | / | (804) 683-2532 "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA" +--------+ ================================================== "I protest Captain! I am not a merry man!" - Lt. Worf