userBARD@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Barry Ard) (12/21/90)
I haven't seen this mentioned before so I am reprinting this without permission: (note paragraphs 2 & 3) Infoworld, Dec 3/90 -- quote -- Media Envy. Multimedia, a technology in search of a customer, may be the answer to every software developer's worries. Or maybe not. Microsoft's first multimedia app will be a CD ROM version of PowerPoint, with clip animations and other stuff. Other productivity apps in CD ROM versions will follow. Turns out there is multimedia and multimedia. In the latter category is New Tek, makers of a hot Amiga product called The Video Toaster - a board that can do neat tricks mixing live TV feeds with other video sources. New Tek was approached separately at Comdex by Apple and IBM, both offering New Tek whatever it cost to do a version of the Toaster for their respective systems. New Tek turned down both offers on technical grounds. Unlike the Amiga, Macintoshes and PS/2s are not "video systems". They just don't have the ground-up designs needed to handle such a product -- end-quote -- And this tidbit was passed on to me by my boss who is an avid Macintosh supporter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So long Grizzly dudes", Bart Simpson Barry Ard | uucp: ..!alberta!uqv-mts!userbard University Computing Systems | inet: userbard@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca University of Alberta | bitnet: userbard@ualtamts.bitnet Edmonton, Alberta | bard@ualtavm