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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New graphics products for the 'miga
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Date: 28 Jun 91 00:52:16 GMT
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  Wow! Impressive list! If we could get DIG/RTG quickly, the Amiga
will soon be the king of high-end video again.

 In addition to that list, we should add HAM-E (and HAM-E PRO), DCTV,
Video Toaster, Video Blender, Firecracker/24., A2410, and the
mimetics frame buffer. (Perhaps we should put all of these in a 
FAQL) One thing I didn't really think of until now was the Amiga's
ability to use IBM cards in the bridgecard slots. What we need is a
processless/ramless bridgecard, and a library for interfacing to these
boards then the Amiga can take advantage of every IBM card on the market.
(Just imagine using those $100 SuperVGA cards for the Amiga's display)
Think of the possibilities of using all those cheap IBM cards on the
Amiga. (sound cards would work too). 

 Perhaps the Amiga4000 should have a NuBUS slot too, that way we could
use Mac cards. You could claim the Amiga as the "best of all three
worlds. Business, Publishing, and Video!"
 Of course Apple could probably find a way to prevent this since running
the Mac operating system on the Amiga is a dangerous threat to them.
[Tangent mode]
  Imagine dealerships shipping package deal Amiga's. The customer would
ask "Does it run XXX on platform A or YYY on platform B?" And they could 
answer, "Yes, the Amiga runs all software, IBM, Mac, AmigaDOS, and UNIX".
Running Mac and UNIX software would be nothing but software packaged with it,
the IBM software would need a cheap bridgecard packaged with it, or something
like IBeM. So, for the price of an A3000 ($1850 or $2250) plus let's
say $200 for the Mac clone roms from NuTek, plus IBeM (licensed from the
author of course) you have a machine that runs more software than any other
platform, and with better price/performance. You could go one step
further. Remove the Amiga's label, and call it "The compatiblity box...
of the future" Start a nation wide advertising campaign advertising a 
machine that runs Mac/IBM/Unix/AmigaDOS but don't say it's an Amiga.
That way, Joe Average will buy it because he won't jhave to engage in
strenous intellectual activity like deciding which machine to buy
(Mac or IBM) he can just but this box, and all his worries are solved
knowing that it runs everything and does everything he wants.
Maybe, just maybe, he'll boot up in Amiga mode sometimes and discover
how nice it is.
[exit tangent mode]

  Nice way to shove Amiga's into the laps of the masses isn't it?








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