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- From: arigr@telerama.lm.com (Aristotelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What the PPC Amiga *needs* to survive!
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 13:40:04 -0500
- Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Robert Atkins (c9412417@lily.newcastle.edu.au) wrote:
- > You all know what I'm talking about. Sure, sure... PCI slots and a
- > multithreaded WB and resource tracking and memory protection and all that
- > are very nice, but the Amiga is nothing, absolutely *nothing* without...
-
- > The GURU!
-
- > Yes! That's right! Re-instate the Guru Meditation Error! Bugger these lame
- > "Software Failure" messages, I want an honest Guru once in a while. But
- > don't stop there, AT. I want *more* B52s lyrics on the PCBs! I want
- > *more* easter eggs in Workbench! I want to be able to press
- > control-amiga-double-bucky-cokebottle and get windows popping up with
- > secret messages about how froody the engineers were.
-
- > That's right folks, to the hell with these stuffed-shirt attitudes to
- > computing, I want a machine with *character*! And the Walker case (and
- > name!) is a great start.
-
- > Cheers,
-
- Right on friend!
- That's why the Amiga was so popular!
- You had the Intel/MS boxes looking dull and stiff and then you had the
- Amiga, all life and colors.
- If the Amiga is to become another PPC platform, atleast give her some style!
- The Macs have the business-like "user-friendliness", the one you expect from your
- local phone operator. Phony smiles. The BeBox is all cool and tip-top but is still
- just cool and tip-top. The Amiga is supposed to be th rebel here!
- If they come up with a case with piercings and graffiti then go for it AT! ;-)
- Seriously, those what made the Amiga great. The guru, HAM, the little special
- things that said: "I am not a stinking business box made by stiff tight-suit
- emptyheaded business droids, I am a computer made by artists!"
-
- And Jay Miner and the original hardware team were artists.
- So is Dave.
-
- If the Amiga follows the path of the electronic box, I might as well give up
- computers in general. And my computer graphics career *sigh*.
-
- Down with gray suits! Long live colorful t-shirts! :-)
- (ofcourse not when I go tango-dancing :-)
-
- Aristotelis
- --
- Love, Peace, Unity and Power to the People!
- arigr@lm.com
- TSIOU!
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