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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Amiga's "roots" [Was: Re: Shareware - does it really work?]
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Date: 20 Oct 89 11:44:57 GMT
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In article <126538@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>Almost no shareware at all in the Commodore camp (the theft rate is
>astronomical).  And as they graduate to the Amiga, you find the rate
>climbing there, too.  But still lots of hackers around the Amiga.  (An
>interesting, if flawed, machine.  I think it's the real spiritual heir
>to the Apple //.)

Actually one of my housemates {translation: one of two people who live in this
apartment but is not my roommate} works at Apple and has an Amiga for
his own use. (By the way, his roommate and good friend works for IBM and
they say they both call each other from work FREQUENTLY. God... I wonder
what the higher ups would say about that! hehehe.. They both say everyone
that finds out that two good friends work at Apple and IBM make the 
"wow but they hate each other" kind of joke...like I did when I first talked
to them)....God, too much about my personal life...sorry..

But onto the real point. One thing my housemate (with the Amiga) said was that
most of the people he knows with Amigas "grew up" on the Apple II. So maybe
if Apple had given a little more a little more quickly they would have
stayed. [HEY I LIKE THE NEW SYSTEM UPDATES AND IF THAT GS LAPTOP COMES
OUT I WILL ALSO TAKE BACK MOST BAD THINGS I'VE SAID ABOUT APPLE]

Heh...One final note on the situation in this apartment...Forgetting things
like stereos, a TV, VCR, etc that's all worth a lot, in computers we
currently have the following:
	My Apple //GS [gotta list it first!], a Mac somethingeruther (for
housemate #1 to work on), an Amiga (always forget which one), an IBM
pre-PS/II-somethingeruther (housemate #2s), and an IBM PS/2 80 (guessing
on the last #...For housemate#2 to work on)...For 4 people total, we have
FIVE computers...and my roommate doesn't even have one! heh...

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