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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!email!nino
- From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
- Subject: Re: PC Bigotry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.134135.8974@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at
- Nntp-Posting-Host: petrus.vmars.tuwien.ac.at
- Organization: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- References: <74056@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:41:35 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- [...]
- : People who own just PCs have far better things to do with their
- : time and computers than come here and try to evangalize Atari
- : owners...
- Really...
-
- : They do things like Desktop Publishing, Word Processing, Graphics
- : and Music, Business Applications, and even Games, on their PCs...
-
- WOW! I've never done that on my crappy ST!
-
- : If you read any of the PC newsgroups, you find people who are
- : busily and happily using their computers, instead of fighting
- : over the remains of a dead software company, or trying their
- : best to defend the bizzare business practices of the company that
- : manufactures their computer. (Or discussing how great it will
- : be.. someday.. when the new _________ computer is finally
- : released... someday... )
-
- Well, we too would be happily using our computers if some people would
- not keep on whining all the time about the policy of Atari Corp. and
- how much better the PC market is. I'm certain that most c.s.a.st readers
- are quite fed up with that discussion, and would appreciate it if it
- ended as soon as possible. This is comp.sys.atari.st, not misc.talk.atari_corp,
- or comp.sys.atari.st.advocacy. Why can't people get back to posting
- informative things, not just feeding the never-ending thread?
-
- : PC owners don't much care about the Atari world.. if they even
- : know it exists...
-
- Of course. Then, either
- 1) You're a PC owner, don't care much about the Atari world, but keep
- whining here in comp.sys.atari.st, or
- 2) You're NOT a PC owner, but still keep on whining instead of writing
- something useful here.
-
- : It's Atari owners who exist in more than just the "Atari ghetto"
- : who seem to rub the "Atari religious" the wrong way...
-
- I don't know what you expected when you wrote more or less how stupid
- we all were that we haven't thrown our Ataris away and gone to the PC
- instead, but it seems quite natural that people who own a computer
- don't want to be offended like that just because they see no reason to
- buy a new computer. Sure, some people may just be fanatics, but I
- personally see absolutely no reason to buy a PC if the ST does what
- I need! I don't have any psychological problems with knowing that
- some other people use computers that are 10x faster than my Mega STe
- and get more (pirated) new games per day than are released for the ST
- in a year...
-
- : "The Truth" is not welcome here...
-
- Ermm... Do you really think this newsgroup was created to find out
- "The Truth" (whatever you mean), and not eg. for discussing what's
- going on in the ST world? (New program releases, bugs in programs,
- programming ideas, help requests etc.)
-
- : BobR
-
- -MY
-
-