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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: [I forgot his name]
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.051407.7448@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 90 05:14:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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>Wow, I must be really (in)famous to occupy a whole Subject :-)

You're certainly getting there!

>Tom, I really like some of the stuff you have writen for the Amiga
>but you seem to be disagreeing with Motorola:

<Blush> yes, of course, as Motorola admits, Move from SR is indeed
a hole in the 68000 virtual machine.  But it is a hole that affects
a vanishingly small percentage of programs.

>>True, except that 99% of the software (and certainly all productivity
>>software) does not use MOVE from SR, so there is no problem.

>At least 99% of time (and certinaly all working hours), I am not having
>sex, so I am still a virgin.

Bad analogy.  Sorry to hear about your sex life.

>You mean I can drop a '010 into my Amiga (or have my dealer do it) and
>when I have a problem, I can call Commodore-Amiga for support? This is
>extremely good news. Can someone at Commodore confirm this please?

This is exactly what I mean, except that your dealer is the front-line
for support; that's what dealers are for.

>There you go again, comparing software systems. I was talking about bugs
>in processors. 

I believe you were talking about object code compatibility.  This is a
measureable statistic; your claim was that Intel does better in this
regard.

>You are right, I was "winding people up" (an English expression that I just
>picked up recently). Watching people come up with incoherant flames to
>technically correct arguments is one way to spend the winter hours :-)

But doesn't this just generate ceaseless flame wars?  It's sort of like
yelling `FIRE' in a crowded theater, or yelling a racial epithet at a
minority.

Then again, the S/N ratio here is so low anyway; how far can it sink?

>I assure you that I understand the technical points. What is more, I seem
>to understand the *subtle* implications of the questions a whole lot more
>than many of the people on the net. [See, I just snuck in yet another
>atomic-powered flame generator. Gotta keep comp.sys.amiga usage up.]

That's even worse.  If you're smart enough to argue from a position
of strength, you should have better things to do with your time and
more constructive things to say on the net.

Local bboards are for taunting and teasing.

-tom