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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.143454.18410@usl.edu>
- Sender: anon@usl.edu (Anonymous NNTP Posting)
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <ByxF7F.1uy@ais.org> <ByyIs7.BBE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <72384@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:34:54 GMT
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- In article <72384@cup.portal.com> Jim-Guy@cup.portal.com (James Lawrence Blastic) writes:
- >and monitors sell at all? I remember when a computer came out that had
- >a color monitor as standard, stereo sound and speach synthesis built in,
- >a multitasking operating system, and 256K of RAM (expandable to 512K internally)
- > yet could still multitask applications with only 256K. The savvy 'populous' said:
-
- You are terribly mistaken if you think an Amiga with 512K, much
- less 512k, can multitask useful apps. Terribly mistaken.
-
- >"This must be a new toy game machine out to replace the fading Atari."
- >"It certainly has no use in the REAL computing world." "Who needs to run more
- >than one thing at a time?" "Who needs color?" "Who needs sound?" "Who needs
- >speech synthesis?" "Who needs animation, 3D graphics, etc.?"
-
- Well, a tthe time nobody wanted an Amiga because it didn't DO any of the
- things businesses wanted. Hasn't this fact been belabored enough?
-
- >-I know- tis isn't advocasy..but I couldn't resist. WP is a dog.. porting it to
- >the amiga is like porting MS-DOS to the Amiga. Really.. we must avoid these
- >regressive tendencies and support our Amiga developers so they don't get stolen
- >by MS, but continue to bring newer, better and more powerful applications to
- >the Amiga, a computer worth too much to be used just a fancy electric
- >typewriter.
-
- And the extreme popularity of this fancy electric typewriter is what gets us
- all the great software Amigas cannot get. Amigas are game machines? Not
- the games *I* play. Check my .sig.
-
- >Having been in the clone business and the consulting business I realize that
- >most computers installed in businesses are used just for running Word Perfect.
- >WHAT A WASTE!
-
- As long as there are Amigans like you, they won't be any acceptance of Amigas.
- As soon as some people *really* advocate the Amiga and try to get it to
- be 'acceptable' to a plurality, people like you yell in their face
- 'oh my, but we're _special_ people, with a _special_ computer, we don't want
- mainstream applications vendors, we want to be _different_.'
-
- Gack.
-
- >JimGuy
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-