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- From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <8796@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:05:10 GMT
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- papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >>I'll bet the comment referred to the fact that Commodore is leading the
- >>damn way and the other folks are just now waking up. I can remember when
- >>IBM said you didn't need color or gfx for computers because all the "real"
- >>applications were text based.
- >
- >At the time they were right. At the time all of the software that
- >sold..or sold hardware, were text based.
-
- Sure, they were right because that's about all they had... isnt' that the way
- it always is with you guys? It used to be that the great graphics and sound
- that the Amiga had/has ment it was nothing but a game machine but all of a
- sudden people start getting the same on other platforms and they start
- boasting about it.!!! Same thing regarding Multitasking.. "oh I don't need it"
- "Big deal" Was all we heard... Now that it's becoming available (OS/2... I
- don't call Windows a multitasking operating system) your all singing it's
- praise. What a bunch of hypocrits....
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