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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Mentioned in PC Mag
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3nb9@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 12:15:24 EST
-
- On Wed 17-Apr-1996 10:02p, Robert S. Iacullo wrote:
- RI> I am reading the latest PC Magazine. John C. Dvorak's article is about
- RI> the situation with Apple. I will quote:
-
- RI> "This whole lame situation reminds me of what happened to the Amiga.
- RI> With a true multitasking GUI operation system, genuine stereo digital
- RI> sound, and honest-to-gosh NTSC video, the machine remains amazing to
- RI> this day. But its users as a group were mostly jerks. We'd get letters
- RI> here at PC Magazine claiming that we didn't write about the Amiga, that
- RI> what we said was wrong, or that we didn't get down and worship the
- RI> machine properly."
-
- RI> Now, I don't want you people to delude him with "flaming" e-mail. He is
- RI> writing about his experience. From what we have read from some people
- RI> on this group we know that people write that kind of stuff. What JCD
- RI> hears is what he writes. We also know from this group that there are
- RI> Mac and PC jerks as well. I wanted you to know what one of the most
- RI> respected journalist in the industry thinks of the Amiga. I have been
- RI> reading Johns writings on and off since the days of CP/M. How many of
- RI> you even remember CP/M?
-
- RI> About a month ago John wrote about what he believed was a conspiracy
- RI> between Microsoft and IBM to do in Apple. He was very convincing. So,
- RI> as I said, he writes what he hears, even if it is about MS and IBM.
-
- RI> From what he said in this column it would appear that Apple is going
- RI> down the same road that those two ass holes at C= took the Amiga down.
- RI> It's really to bad. Even if you don't like the MAC, it is always bad
- RI> when a company like that fails.
-
- RI> I intend to write John an e-mail saying that we appreciate what he said
- RI> about the Amiga, but that not all Amigans are jerks. I will also update
- RI> him on the situation with the Amiga, although it's likely that he knows
- RI> already. Hmmm, maybe he will write a column about it.
-
- There is also another way of making this crackpot writer's day. Go out and
- buy PC Magazine and mail it to PC's Mag's CEO/President of his publishing
- company directly with a letter stating you have never been so insulted and
- defamed as by this article by John and that you will never again buy PC
- Magazine and demand a refund.
-
- I tend to doubt that if he's that much of a conspiracy loon, he's not going to
- listen to pleasantries and such. He deserves all that us Amiga Jerks can do
- to create a conspiracy against him.
-
- Afterall, bad publicity is better then NO publicity.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
-