> > > I find it interesting that the gaming market is one of the
> > > main defining markets for current PC hardware...the very market that
> > > PC users used to scorn. I've always thought it was stigma that was
> > > unfairly applied to the Amiga, even if it was better at it than the
> > > PC's of the same time period.
> > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better...
> The Amiga was doing "desktop publishing" *before* the term was coined!
As much as I love the old wars ... here I have to object.
The first time I was confronted to Desktop Publishing was
in 1980. And even if we restrict it to PCs, things like
the Ventura Publisher (a fine long time carrier of the
GEM banner) predates the AMIGA by years.
Gruss
H.
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