UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (10/04/89)
The October 9 issue of BusinessWeek contains a "special report"
called
It's a PC, it's a TV---it's Multimedia
It is a very up beat article (with too many quotes from Apple and IBM
types) about the how VCR, audio, laserdisk, might be the next big splash.
In a sidebar it says, "Commodore has designed its PCs to process video and
hi-fi audio." But later in the article it says,
``The leader in this niche, and a company that may enjoy renewed growth
as multimedia computing catches on, is Commodore International Corp. Its
Amiga computer was designed with mixed-media applications in mind, says
David Archambault, director of business marketing. The machine accepts
analog video signals using only a fraction of the add-on equipment that
most other PCs require. It includes special microchips for animating complex
graphics and producing stereo sound. And, in contrast to most other PC
brands, its basic software can make all of these functions work simultaneously.
Says Archambault: "We feel perfectly positioned to take advantage of the new
awareness of multimedia computing."''
My only real beef with the article is that it ascribes many capabilities
to the Macintosh without discriminating between the Mac and the Mac II.
Just thought yall'd wanna know...
lee