Found this on my local BBS (taken originally from another network)…
This week's InfoWorld featured a write up in the "Notes From The Field"
column by Robert X. Cringely.
Under the heading "Media Envy":
Turns out there is multimedia and "Multimedia". In the latter category is
NewTek, makers of a hot Amiga product called the Video Toaster – a board
that can do neat tricks mixing live TV feeds with other video sources.
NewTek was approached separately at Comdex by Apple and IBM, both offering
NewTek whatever it cost to do a version of the Toaster for their respective
systems. NewTek turned down both offers on technical grounds. Unlike the
Amiga, Macintoshes and PS/2's are not "video systems". They just don't have
the ground-up designs needed to handle such a product.
Gee, isn't that just *too* bad ;-).