gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (09/23/90)
Hi. I am surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet. If you pick up the latest edition of personal workstation, they have an article about multimedia systems: what are currently and what will be the best multimedia platforms around. The really interesting thing is that there is no mention whatsoever of the Amiga. NeXT, Mac IIfx, Compaq 486, and a few others I cannot remember were the machines to go with according to them. YAMTIA (Yet Another Magazine That Ignores Amiga). See ya, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 565 South Zeeb Rd. | something that actually makes sense, you need to Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 662-1506
donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett) (09/24/90)
I really think that magazines which refuse to mention the machine should get many letters and probably be taken with a grain of salt. After all, aren't their a possible 1.8M Amigas out there? If this is true we all have a substantial lobbying group. It's too bad that most magazines only plug products found that you find ads for in their publication. -- **************************************************************** ********* donb@bushido.uucp ****** ********* "My Opinions are my own, not anyone else's ****** ********* Organizational Affiliations ****** ********* CreativEdge Systems, the Multimedia Solution ****** ********* The Computer Shoppe, Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor, MI's ****** ********* Commodore-Amiga Education Dealer ******
seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) (09/26/90)
In-Reply-To: message from donb@bushido.uucp What I find VERY amusing about Personal Workstation, is that they're covering machines like the new DECStation 5000, HP/Apollo machines, SGI and SUN workstations...but then a couple of pages away, *BING* an ad for a 386/sx! Hold ME back...at least MIPS magazine has a 3MIP (Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed) minimum. I've only seen the Amiga mentioned ONCE, but they have stuff like this...Intel's equivalent to a 68000 w/a math co-processor. Then there's their "Application Watch," their list of shipping software for "multitasking operating systems witha graphical user interface." Listed are: Open Look, NeXTStep, OS/2 PM, and Motif. Where's AmigaDOS 2.0??? There are a hell of alot more Amigas out there running AmigaDOS (1.3 and 2.0) than there are clones running OS/2, which has a whole 22 applications written for it. After Amiga UNIX is released, Amigan's can at least be glad that Open Look is leading all the others listed with 55 applications so far: 18 Office Tools/Utilities, 12 Wordprocessors/DTP, 4 Spreadsheets, 4 Communications/LAN, 7 Graphics/Illustration, 3 Databases, and 7 Engineering/Science applications. Sean //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// UUCP: ...!crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc | ARPA: !crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc@nosc.mil | " Fanatics have their INET: seanc@pro-party.cts.com | dreams, wherewith they | weave a paradise for RealWorld: Sean Cunningham | a sect. " Voice: (512) 994-1602 PLINK: ce3k* | -Keats | Call C.B.A.U.G. BBS (512) 883-8351 w/SkyPix | B^) VISION GRAPHICS B^) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\