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From: spencer@well.UUCP (Randal Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Business
Message-ID: <1978@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Oct-86 11:51:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 25 11:51:01 1986
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In article <304@plx.UUCP>, ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
> 
>  In article: <1965@well.UUCP> Keith Doyle writes:
> 
> > In my mind, this is for only one reason:  DESKTOP PUBLISHING.  And why? 
> > Because this is one thing the Mac can do that the PC can't (yet, or is just
> > now getting around to). 
> 
> The Mac has *BIG* problems in the Desktop Publishing market since it 
> can't do PORTRAIT MODE without a $2000 monitor designed by Burell Smith
> 
> > 
> > So what is it?  Well, let's see....   How about DESKTOP SLIDE PRODUCTION, 
> > or uh... uh... DESKTOP VIDEO...  yeah! that's the ticket!  
> > 
> 
> Nah, that ain't it.  How often do you do presentations? Also, How do you 
> get decent COLOR hardcopy? Even a Mom & Pop business needs Desktop 
> Publishing but only a Fortune 1000 company need "Desktop Video" or 
> whatever.
> 
> > So, maybe, just MAYBE the effort ought to be concentrated on developing
> > the areas where the Amiga can do things that brand-X CAN'T.  
> 
> The Amiga should be able to do PORTRAIT MODE disktop pubishing (simply
> rotate a standard RGB monitor) THIS is a market.
> 
> > 
> > Keith Doyle
> > #  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
> > #  cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa
> 
> Ed Chaban (Soon to be a FORMER amiga owner)
> Plexus Computers Inc.
> Phone: (408) 943-2226
> Net:sun!plx!ed

I don't know that I really see the Amiga being able to shine in the area of
desktop publishing just because you can rotate the monitor to get a full
8 1/2 x 11 picture.  The ST would be better for this (if you got the b&w
monitor.)  Even the old 8-bit Epson has a resolution of 640x400.  The
point of the previous article is that the Amiga has the capability to do
something that NO other computer out there can.  That is put Amazing pict-
ures on a TV tube or video tape.  The machine was designed from the beginning
(or soon there abouts) to work with NTSC.  The GenLock grows out of this
thinking.  *No* other machine (in standard configuration) has this capability.
This means that you can use any software to help you generate videos, not just
the ones that work with an NTSC display adapter (if there is such a thing
for IBM PC's or Mac's or Epson's (or even ST's)).  I bought my Amiga for this
advantage, the CLI, the multitasking, and all the other advantages came later.
I love them, and would find it hard to live with out them, but what convienced
me first was the NTSC compatibility.

Something to Chew on

Randy Spencer
Unemployed DEC/Amiga consultant

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