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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Byte Bites. (So have we read the Graphics section yet?)
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Date: 2 Apr 89 02:05:51 GMT
References: <8904011630.AA21629@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <8904011630.AA21629@jade.berkeley.edu> CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
| Page 258.
| Supposedly a screen picture of the amiga version of flight simulator
| is really a screen picture off a PC, Because it sure as heck ain't the
| screen that i see when I fly flight Sim....

I thought it was a cheesy selection too, but then I looked at the PC
and Mac shots.  They're no better.  The PC "graphics" was color text
being displayed by Procomm Plus (communications program).

| "the amiga has a trio of custom IC's dedicated to processing
| video information..... the amiga has a degree of multitasking...""
| 
| DEGREE??? what the HELL do they call having the Editor, a terminal program
| a mandlebrot, three CLI's, and a Compiler running...
| thats just a degree of  multitasking????

Don't toast your socks over this.  In context, what they meant was the
Amiga has a degree of MULTIPROCESSING.  But the bozo who wrote it either
doesn't know the difference, or it is just a goof.  I wouldn't worry
though -- the present BYTE audience wouldn't know the difference either.

My impression was that the article was written by someone who
knew nothing about the Amiga, and didn't have the time/inclination
to learn.  They did have some good things to say.  And considering
that in the vast wasteland of BYTE advertisers none are Amiga shops,
they were pretty fair.

Anybody really interested in graphics, save your time.  This was my
"teaser" copy of BYTE trying to get me to subscribe.  What do you
think I'll do.  :-)

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu