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- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m4y@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 27 Dec 92 20:23:14 PST
- References: <jbickers.0m06@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec26.204912.14405@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Dec27.015438.1612@usl.edu>
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- Quoted from <1992Dec27.015438.1612@usl.edu> by das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A):
- > >John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
-
- > >: > Come on, Peter -- that's a bit cynical. I can show you several OS books
- > >: > which consider DOS an OS.
- > >:
- > >: And this is really naive. I can show you several magic books which
- > >: consider magic to be real.
- >
- > Oh GOD you sound stupid! Can you not think of *any* better
- > analogies than this? I won't bother shooting holes in it as it is.
-
- Take a few seconds to think about it. My example is quite invalid,
- right? So is Jerry's. That is my point. Saying that there are
- "several <foo> books which consider <a> to be <b>" is utterly
- meaningless, because it's well known that you can find a book to
- back up almost any point of view, no matter how ridiculous. The
- limiting factor isn't the degree of foolishness of a topic, its
- that only a finite number of books exist.
-
- > >: > My Atari 800 ran useful applications in 16K. Not exactly a miracle of
- > >: > modern technology.
- > >:
- > >: So you're saying your Atari 800 is better than a PC?
- >
- > There you go again!
-
- There is a phrase for this which escapes me, but has something to
- do with reducing an argument to its simplest elements to show how
- absurd it is.
-
- Jerry's statement about the 800 was also meaningless, because it
- depends on his definition of "useful application". Applications
- that are currently considered useful, with the feature level that
- current applications and operating systems seem to require, would
- not run on his Atari 800. They would and do run on Amigas, PCs and
- Macs.
-
- Sure there are a limited range of applications that can run very
- well on an Atari 800 or a VIC-20, but they are even tinier in
- scope than the DTV/OS/etc stuff the Amiga is pushed for.
-
- > Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
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