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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: History of Computing at the Smithsonian
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 04:55:00 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) said:
- >B E Verins (beverins@aol.com) wrote:
- >: Nathaniel Henderson pointed out:
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- > Attachment to a TV? Heck, my '83(?) Apple IIc does that. :-) Matter
- >of fact, video output to TVs was fairly common on early (read: primative)
- >computers. Hmm.... My Apple IIc does animations. It does sound. It
- >outputs to TV. And it predates the Amiga if I'm not mistaken. :-) But
- >OOPS! It doesn't multitask, and as any fanatical Amigan with nothing else
- >left to recomend their platform knows, multitasking isn't just
- >something--it's the ONLY thing. ;-)
-
- Erm.... it emulates a Mac too... ;)
-
- What else can I say about them? hmmm... plays some lovely games, great OS,
- lovely community atmosphere, shame about the software support and current air of
- gloom and doom..
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- > Nope. (The arrogance!) ;-) Multitasking is NOT needed for
- >multimedia. Never has been, never will be. (You will note Quicktime is
- >manages sound, video, MIDI, text overlays, and sprites simultaniously.)
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- I notice the Mac version of Quicktime loses all sound when you select another
- window! Mmmmmmm... impressive!
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