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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Neww Amigas??
- References: <1992Aug16.235744.824@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Message-ID: <jbono.02nx@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:37:57 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 39
-
- In article <1992Aug16.235744.824@pro-freedom.cts.com>, eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com
- (Ed Brown) writes:
- >
- > > It will probably be good for Amigas, *IF* they are *NEW* Amigas,
- > > not the A600. If it's just coverage of the A600, it will
- > > probably make us look stupid...
- >
- >
- >Well, not to sound paranoid or anything but that may well be Byte's plan.
- >Like other computing mags, Byte has tended to give the Amiga the big ignore
- >in most cases. Putting the A3000 on the cover just about floored me but
- >the positioning of the computer, keyboard, and mouse made the machine look
- >pretty dumb as did the incredibly awful Workbench colors they selected. I
- >wonder if their art department had a hand in that. Could be since it
- >must've taken some time to figure out something that crappy. I hope that
- >the coverage comes out better than I suspect that it will but I must admit
- >that I am NOT optimistic at this point.
- >
- >
- >
- >*======================================================================*
- >|Edward E. Brown II | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com |
- >|Chemist On A Mission From GOD! | UUCP: clark.edu!pro-freedom!eeb|
- >|Vancouver, WA, USA, N.Amer, Earth| FidoNet: 1:105/135 |
- >|---------------------------------|---//-------------------------------|
- >|"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" | \X/ A3000 - UNIX/MSDOS/MacDOS/ADOS |
- >*======================================================================*
-
- The fact that they took the Amiga and put it on the cover is a major event in
- itself. While Byte doesn't cover the Amiga as heavily as they do the clones
- and workstations, they do give it good coverage(Jerry Pournelle excepted, he
- wouldn't know a good computer if it came up and bit him on the a**!). While
- the colors they used for the A3000 were ugly, the article was very positive
- about the Amiga as a whole. When Byte covers the Amiga, it usually gets very
- high marks(read the series of articles on DTV, on the final article in the
- series, almost every paragraph plugged the Amiga *at the expense* of the Mac
- and PC).
-
- John
-