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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: They went and done it
Keywords: Have a cigar, Jerry
Message-ID: <1420@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:17:09 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I just received my December 1988 issue of Byte.  Thank you, Andy
and Joanne for taking the time to groom Jerry P's opionions of the
Amiga.  For a change, the Chaos Manner column finally has quite a
few nice things to say about the Amiga, nealy all of which are
close to being accurate.  Jerry seems to remain confused on a
couple of things, but I'm willing to overlook that for the moment.

Jerry mentions Joanne showing him the Microway Flicker Fixer board
to deinterlace the 400 line mode.  It would have been interesting
if Jerry would have thought to mention that IBM's "standard for
comparison" (my quotes) for the PS is the 8514 board, which IS
interlaced.

I particularly liked the following lines from the article:

	"Long time readers will know I've sometimes had problems
	with Amiga computers.  Part of the difficulty is me: the
	Amiga is a powerful multitasking machine, with a fairly
	complex operating system.  Unlike the Macintosh, which
	is easy to but limited in what you can do - you can
	learn almost all you ever will learn about using the Mac
	in a couple of days - the Amiga has lots of capabilities,
	and it deserves more time than I've been willing to give
	it."

Personally, I like the thought of having a machine that hasn't
given me all that I'm ever going to get from it in a couple of
days.  Fortunately I have the time and desire to exploit the Amiga.

Jerry went on to say some nice things about the desktop video
production possibilities that the Amiga opens up.  He described how
an Amiga could be used to aminate a typical TV weather forecast.

If Jerry continues to say fairly reasonable stuff, I might actually
be able to take down the scaffolding and noose that have been
waiting here (just kidding!).

--Bill