Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!lupine!jcb From: jcb@NCD.COM (Jim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia.. Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 19:45:14 GMT References: <22028@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun11.143911.11688@milton.u.washington.edu><14192@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Lines: 56 I hesitate to get involved in this, but here goes... arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: The AMiga hasnt dominated the market for several reasons: For one, the public is generally ignorant. IBM's are obviously inferior to both NeXT, Amiga, and Mac. But people buy them anyways. FOr every idiot who makes a bad decision, and finds merit in it, hell go off and tell someone else to do the same.. That other person, being a moron as well, is lead to believe that IBM is the one and only. Wrong. No -- you are wrong. The problem has been with the parent company, Commodore Business Machines. The technology is great, and has been great, for six years. However, CBM has not nurtured the machine, and has in fact created the rut into which the Amiga has languished. There were many people working for the success of the Amiga for years, some of them doing Multimedia (myself included). Over time developers got frustrated at the antics and lack of support from the parent company for their own machine. Hence most all of the original Amiga zealots and supporters have changed over the years, replaced by those that know nothing of the history of the machine - and why it's where it is today. There continue to be waves of Amiga zealots, and there should be for the capability of the machine. However you will grow up and understand why the NeXT has a true chance of success for Multimedia, and the Amiga doesn't. "Capability" and "potential" don't make the machine -- success is a lot more complex than mere technical prowess and facts. So the prepetual cycle of ignorance continues to this day. [ ... ] As for NeXT, Ive never used one to any lengthy degree, but I can say that its overpriced, and undersupported. Dosent take a BS in Comp Sci to figure THAT out.. Hell, my mom could tell you NeXT's werent worth it. Well, your statement is self descriptive - it would seem.. :-) My advice to you is to pick up an Amiga sometimes. You seem ill-informed. Theh mabye youll stop your >>>>>NeXT/Amiga whining. There are plenty of used ones available on the network.. I sold mine for $200. BTW -- there are plenty of spell checkers on non-Amiga computers.. -Jim -- -- -Jim Becker / jcb@ncd.com / Network Computing Devices, Inc. (NCD)