1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
noon
On 6/1/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
The Amiga did pioneer so very many things, but in the
end,
sheer numbers win, and as the Mac and PC market blew past it,
carrying the mutated developments with it. Lots of its "who needs it?"
soon became "must haves": color graphics, sound, multitasking, video,
networking, hypertext.
I heard it over and over again back in the day...
"Graphics? That's for games. We have 80 column text!"
"Color? Who needs color for spreadsheets?"
"Sound? Who needs sound for business apps?"
"Video? Who needs video at work?"
"Networking? We can move files on floppies."
"Multitasking? Nobody needs that on a personal computer."
"Mice? They look silly and get in the way of the keyboard."
and on and on and on...
Of course, once the PC Crowd latches onto one of those technologies,
it's the "greatest thing evar". Doesn't matter that you had it 5+
years before and they didn't care.
-ethan