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- From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
- Subject: Re: Video Toaster Comments
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:43:13 EDT
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- an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
-
- >
- > If I'm not mistaken, NewTek makers of the famed Video Toaster will soon
- > be releasing a version of the Toaster on NUBUS for the Macintosh.
-
- I have a friend who is an Amiga _fanatic_, and I know quite a bit about
- NewTek and the Toaster. NewTek originally desinged the Toaster for the
- Mac. They felt that the Mac had a perfect user interface for such a
- product. Then when they did designs, they realized that the Toaster would
- end up being about $10,000. After this, the went to the Amiga. The Amiga's
- large number of graphics and audio coprocessors made the Toaster's task
- much easier.
-
- In short, the Toaster (as we know it) is not just an I/O device. It
- _depends_ on the Amiga, that's why the so-called "Mac" version is just an
- Amiga driven by a Mac.
-
- Don't get me wrong; I own two Mac's, and do lots of Mac programming. I
- love the Mac. But the Amiga is much better built for stuff like the
- toaster. This may change with the PowerPC, but I'm almost sure that there
- won't ever be a NuBus Toaster, without an Amiga as a coprocessor.
-
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