FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (12/19/90)
Speaking about the "great silence conspiracy": I am not a subscriber to the 'silence conspiracy' but there must be more than just ignorance and lack of market at work here. I read both Amiga magazines and (at work) some of the mainstream MS-DOS type of business computer magazines like PC Week and PC Magazine. They cover lots of machines outside the DOS world but in 6 months I have only seen two mentions of the Amiga and the Atari machines. Neither were informational tidbits and they were not flattering in tone. So I do have to wonder because there have been several articles where Amigas and Ataris could have been included with good effect. Talking about the Next and MIDI is reaching a bit when you consider there are music stores all around that will sell you an Atari, an Amiga, a Mac, or even a C64 with your purchase. And they sell software for it too. I haven't seen a Next for sale that way. But that is the way many of these articles are written. IBM, major clones, Apple, Unix boxes and occasionally a network server or Graphics station are featured. Never Amiga or Atari. I don't know what the bias is but I am pretty sure there is one. Not a conspiracy of silence perhaps but for some reason the coverage of Amigas is much less than you would expect. I am waiting to see the reaction in the press when Unix for the Amiga is officially out. Will it get coverage in the Unix articles or will it be ignored? To my mind, that is a good test of the theory. Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com I don't live in a glass house and cast no stones but *still* get broken windows. Now why is that?