Digital BW, The Print

I know . . . the most impressive demonstration I ever saw was by Silicon Graphics when they introduced their Onyx, and I can't remember the name of the "lesser" system . . . Indigo, maybe?. But there were a handful of photographers, and a majority of graphic artists anxiously watching as a variety of magic was being performed in "real time" on their machines . . .it was truly a jaw-dropping experience . . . until someone had the audacity to ask how much memory and at what cost was the system running under. When the presenter reluctantly gave the estimate, about 75% of the room left (this was about 15 or more years ago . . . memory cost a fortune then). Command line systems, which Unix is, are faster than the PHS (push here stupid) systems we use today, but obviously they aren't user (braiin-dead?) friendly. No we are stuck with what we have . . . my point was that what we have is sub-par.I work in the advertising field and I know how well the industry coddles and convinces everyone that they have "the greatest thing since sliced bread". Windows and Mac Virus are junk. They could be systems that actually worked properly, but that wouldn't make the snake oil salesman any money, would it?

Paul Aparycki

  Paul  -

  Do you have a better and viable alternative to MS and APPLE?  The most prevelant software for doing the digital imaging work runs on MS/APPLE only.

  Tom Baker


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