Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Wed Apr 24 08:09:59 2002

And thusly Douglas H. Quebbeman spake:
>
> > > > 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!
>
> In what year do you place this revisionist history? People were
> casually using the term "Desktop Publishing" in 1985, the year
> the Commodore Amiga A1000 was launched...
>

Ok... So when the Amiga was released, it put desktop publishing on the map.. :)

But, I place this date when I had my A500 and did some brochure design work.

Bryan
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 08:09:59 BST