Re: Apple - The people who invented Quicktime

[mspaeth@athena.mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)]

]I've used Amigas before.  I am an Amiga advocate.  The truth is that
]the Amiga has a generally similar feel to the GS, but the fact of the
]matter is that the Apple II came first.  The GS compares favorably to
]the Amiga 1000 and 500.  The Amiga had the edge in graphics, but the
]GS had a huge edge in sound (we're talking about wavetable synthesis
]32 channel Ensoniq synthesizer built in - basically an Ensoniq ESQ1
]and Mirage, built in in _1986_ here!).  And Amiga fans, the GS could
]and can pre-emtively multitask under GNO/ME.  :)  The GS and Amiga are
]kindred spirits.  You know how you can drop a font engine into the
]Amiga and it can use a new type of font?  This is kind of like GS users
]dropping in Pointless and all programs instantly recognizing TrueType
]fonts.  There are other examples, such as dropping in new filesystems
](HFS, MS-DOS, ProDOS, UCSD Pascal, High Sierra/ISO-9660, and others),
]etc.  In fact, I would not be surprised if someone wrote an FFS FST
]some day and the GS being able to mount Amiga floppies.  :)  By the
]way, Applied Engineering also made Amiga power supplies.

I guess the biggest difference between the amiga and the //gs is that 
Gateway 2000 is reviving the amigas, and apple will keep the //gs dead.
*sigh*