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Article #21379Re: Apple stumbles...
From: blumenthal home with the armadil...
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1987 10:54
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1987 10:54
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>In article <1043@uhccux.UUCP> Jeff T. Segawe writes:
>> ... Trouble is, I can't see spending $500+ to play games! The Amiga needs
In article <717@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) writes:
>How about graphics/animation/video? The Amiga has a large collection
> We're talking 4096 colors at once,
One of the biggest advantages of the Mac over the 'Miga, when it first
came out (and even now as far as I know) was the printer support.
Even my 128K doorstop (before it became a 1M mutt) could print stuff
out "jest like it looks right 'cher on the screen" (usually
...multi-column docs in Word 1.0x notwithstanding). I've seen
dot-matrix color harcopy for the Amiga and it stinks. As for laser
machines, I suppose it's just a matter of the Amiga speaking
PostScript. But the point is that Mac applications are generally
WYSIWYG from launch to hardcopy, and I think it's that last WYSIWYG
step to hardcopy which made (and still makes) a big difference to a
lot of people.
Take care, UUCP: {ihnp4, harvard}!ut-sally!brad
Brad Blumenthal ARPA: brad@sally.utexas.edu
"Oh hell, what do I know. I'm just a begonia."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!brad From: brad@ut-sally.UUCP (blumenthal @ home with the armadillos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple stumbles... Message-ID: <9547@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 05:54:20 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.9547 Posted: Mon Nov 9 05:54:20 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:49:07 EST References: <717@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: brad@ut-sally.UUCP (blumenthal @ home with the armadillos) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 24 Keywords: Amiga Printer WYSIWYG Summary: Printer support