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- From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.025212.8985@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <8798@orbit.cts.com> <1992Dec22.055037.29390@usl.edu> <Bzns93.D6v@NeoSoft.com> <1htbmhINNpkd@news.aero.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:52:12 GMT
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- In article <1htbmhINNpkd@news.aero.org>, foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
- |> In article <Bzns93.D6v@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- |> ...
- |> >
- |> >On a single-drive machine the best you could probably manage would be to use
- |> >a word-processor or spreadsheet. You know, the things most DOS users do most
- |> >of the time.
- |> >
- |> ...
- |> >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- |>
- |>
- |> It used to bother me a lot when I would read threads like this one. I would
- |> get angry at the way people would believe the hype about the DOS machines.
- |>
- |> Perhaps it was because my first computer was a TI-99/4A which became an
- |> orphan early on. So I was concerned that the Amiga might become an orphan.
- |>
- |> Now I am not concerned. I know that any Amiga is the most cost effective
- |> machine, in particular for things like video, animations etc.
- |>
- |> Many people complain about how the youth of today don't read, how they
- |> just watch TV or play video games. That is a silly complaint. The world
- |> of today ane even more so of tomorrow will be a world in which communicating
- |> will be done by video etc. How did Clinton win the election. Primarily by
- |> good use of the video world.
- |>
- |> So I believe that the people who use DOS machines, who primarily use
- |> them for word processors and spreadsheets, will become the second class
- |> citizens of the future. Those who work with Amigas and perhaps MACs wil
- |> become the world leaders of the future.
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- Thanks for the laugh...ha ha...you WERE joking?
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