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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Msg from Carl Sassenrath (VISCorp)
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- Date: 18 Apr 1996 17:28:50 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Chris Hall (hybrid@star.slinknet.com) wrote:
- : Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : : Perhaps it makes business sense for VIScorp but I for one am not interested
- : : in a set top box and won't be for some years until the industry gets their
- : : act together. If the whole world went the set top box way I still would
- : : want a computer. From what I understand a set top box is just a fancy
- : : terminal to be connected to a mainframe in any case and I don't approve of
- : : that kind of setup.
-
- : A set top box is a computer. The term "Set top box" is getting a bad wrap
-
- So is a microwave oven, technically. :)
-
- : that it doesn't deserve. What's the difference between a 1200 connected
- : to a TV and a set top box Amiga? The shape of the case and location.
- : Selling set top boxes could make VIScorp enough money to develope more
- : powerful Amigas.
-
- Good for VIScorp, all the more power to them, doesn't mean I am interested
- in their product though. I don't want a user end machine myself, there is a
- market for VIScorp, I am just not a part of it, or won't be until everyone
- else is using such things and they are standard.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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