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From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as TeX workstation?
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Date: 5 May 88 06:36:10 GMT
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In article <41100UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>In article <5672@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) says:
>>Well, lo and behold, I've been asked to write a proposal how to add a few
>>amiga machines around campus, how to network them, how to minimize support
>>and repair, etc. I'd like to know how others have convinced their people to
>>buy into amigi and suggestions you might have for me. The priority here is
>>"cheap".
>>
>
>COMMODORE!  Jump on this!
>
>Do this guys work for him.  Help him out.  If one university gets a lab
>full of Amigas, it'll be that much easier for the rest of us to convince
>the pc crazies.  (Around here, they are thinking of throwing away pc's so
>they can replace them with ps/2's.  That's progress.)

OOOOOEEEEEE!! This guy ain't just scoopin' with a bit bucket!  I'm at Univ.
of Florida (yes, it's probably warmer here than where you are), and the Student
Gov't. bought PS/2 Model 20's for a WORD PROCESSING LAB!!  (Where's that "waste
of MIPS" subject when you need it?)  There's a rumor that the Journalism College
here is going to set up an Amy lab for animation.  They already have some great
freeze-frame VCR's, but the prof. I spoke to (he has an A2000 at home) doesn't
think they'll be able to get from where the VCR's are (the on campus radio
station (UF is #1 in Journalism (my fiancee's in Journalism Coll. (Journalism
College is #1 in great-looking women)))) to the Amy lab.  I saw a RS244 cable
goes up to 5000 feet, a heck of a lot more than RS232.

Anyway, if you any suggestions for someone who has boo-koo video/audio equ.
but no know-how with Amiga soft/hardware, e-mail me and I'll get it to him.

Again, get those Amy's visible.  We want them in the schools, the factories,
the workplace,...

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But hey, its the best country in the world!
Thomas W. Sarver

"The complexity of a system is proportional to the factorial of its atoms.  One
can only hope to minimize the complexity of the micro-system in which one
finds oneself."
	-TWS

Addendum: "... or migrate to a less complex micro-system."