plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka) (07/30/90)
The August issue of Personal Workstation magazine features an article
on Multimedia, written by their Senior Technical Editor, Bud E. Smith,
with no mention whatsoever of the Amiga. (pp. 52-61)
(Note: PW was formerly MIPS magazine.)
The Article "Creation Stations: Platforms for Multimedia Authoring,"
features (get this!) The Macintosh, intel based PCs, and.. the NeXT!
This article has a Mac tint to it the whole way through, even to the
point of listing the availability "HyperCard-type product" as one of the
points of comparison.
"Gee Bud, none of these machines have an 'AmigaVision-type product.'":-)
At any rate, the Amiga could match or exceed all of these systems as
a multimedia platform, and with the announcement of the 3000 and
AmigaVision, (on the cover of BYTE, no less) there is no reason for the
ignorance of this editor.
I urge anyone, and everyone, to write PW about this, it is usually a fine
magazine (one of my favorites.)
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To top it all off, There's a letter in this SAME ISSUE, telling PW, that
if they had only given the Amiga a closer look in their April issue,
they'd have known about utilties such as IconX and IconEd (two things
they noted as missing from our OS.)
BTW, the April issue, featured an article on Low cost workstations, in
which our Amiga was given a sidebar to itself, thanks to GVP, which
apparently enlightened PW by showing off an 68030 based Amiga.
Just read this article and you'll be ticked off too!
Dave
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-------------------------------------------------------------\XX/-----------cfj@isc.intel.com (Charlie Johnson) (07/31/90)
I know this is probably the wrong group for this discussion, but did anyone else out there get screwed when MIPS went away and came back as Personal Workstation ?? I had a paid subscription to MIPS which just stopped coming without any notification or anything. I tried to write to them, but received no reply. It was only later that I found out that it was reincarnated as PW. -- Charles Johnson Intel Scientific Computers, MS CO1-01 15201 NW Greenbrier Pkwy Beaverton, OR 97006 phone: (503)629-7605 email: cfj@isc.intel.com