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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Lies, lies, they're telling us lies...
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Date: 25 Nov 89 21:44:21 GMT
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In article <4737@nigel.udel.EDU> acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
>
>
>Since people seem to be posting their favourite lies from computer
>reps, I thought I'd add this one I heard from an IBM demo guy at the
>Northeast Computer Show.  We were discussing the virtues of the
>Motorola 68020 vs. the Intel '386, and he came out with this beauty:
>
>"Well, of course segmented architecture enables you to produce tighter,
>more modular code."
>
>
>					Craig.

Hey, that's nothing. Check out the December issue of Compute's 
"Amiga Resource" magazine, page 13. Arlan Levitan went "under cover"
to a number of PeeCee/EssTee/Mack dealers playing dumb and asked about
the Amiga. In the writeup he gives 10 responses he received, some 
bordering on slander. A must read if you need your blood pressure
raised.

(Example : "The Amiga is an overpriced, modified C64", or

	   "Amiga 500 power supplies are dangerous and had started
	    fires in people's homes by shorting out. . .")

happy reading!


mike



                                                      *** mike smithwick ***

"When I was 18 I joined the centrifigal Air-force"
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]