Amiga World Magazine (January 1992)

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January1992
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It's easy to dismiss all this stuffyou MPC vendorsarc reallyjustattempt
can'tbuy, but recent batches ofpress ing to recreate theAmiga market.
releases talk about productsactually Owners ofthese new systemswill learn
shipping, and this makes me nervous. a heap ofnew terms: authoring system,
'fhe newest and, fornow, biggest framegrabber, genlock, frame rates,
wave is a thingcalled multimedia PC, MIDI, NTSC, and so on, and they'll try
or MPC.This isa standard drawn up todo many ofthe thingswe do already.
by perennial industry instigatorMicro It's notjustTandy and Microsoft,
cither. Apple and IBM have ganged
together toworkon a multimedia PC
that's due in a fewyears or less, and
just recently IBM announced a system
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