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| Comment 1 | Troels Ersking | | 28-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Radfoo | | 28-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Craig Delahoy | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Kresimir Rogic | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
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| ACE 2000 show report : Comment 5 of 22 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by greenboy on 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT | Christian, the blurb you wrote here for your item that this is a "comprehensive" ACE2K report Craig Delahoy has written simply is NOT true. Though a couple platforms were fleetingly mentioned, the report quickly became a PR blurb for Amiga Inc - which surely is less than a comprehensive show report should be.
Why am I commenting? After all, this IS an Amiga forum. But because lots of Amigans are also developing with the Realtime Platform from QNX, which had a strong presence at the show, I feel I must. I also believe it is germane because of QNX's part in these latter days of the story we have lived. Yet not even a *mention* of this company or platform which has many in the Amiga community involved.
I similarly found fault with a report published on a non-Amiga mainstream site by one of the show's promoters, who made it sound like an AMIGA show - which it was not. At least it wasn't to all the people involved with other efforts who humped gear, paid for travel and lodging, prepared demos, and paid for exhibit space. In fact, I've been disappointed that *publicly* only a reporter at Amiga.de has written a report that even acknowledges other Alternative Computing efforts. They (he) did a great job of summarizing a large variety of efforts. I was pleased to see that Teemu had linked it:
[http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=972683850&category=news&3]
It is ironic that a platform such as RTP that has Amigans interested and active - Phoenix members, Amigan people from "down under" and everywhere else - is so readily dismissed. My feelings about a dearth of remarks about REBOL's participation at ACE are similar. As an aside, reports on ANN and elsewhere about Seal-O-Rama were also blind to Phoenix and QNX. The efforts of Ideas2Reality to demonstrate RTP before its preview release with the permission of QNX UK were simply not mentioned though Ami/RTP cross-developers Bernard Giltrap and associates went to great trouble to be there representing Phoenix, and to have something significant to show. Again, an irony: the only report to give ANY coverage of these guys was that of Amiga Inc supporter
Gary Storm, found on the Seal website itself:
[http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/]
So. There isn't a problem with Craig Delahoy's report per se, but it certainly is not *comprehensive* as was billed. It does not represent the breadth of the show, or even the breadth of efforts people from the Amiga community are involved with. I can only think you consider it comprehensive because there was a fair amount of detail, though only of that which surrounds Amiga Inc.
Thanks for the forum though, and thanks for listening.
<-- greenboy ---<<< a phoenixguy |
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