Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:23687 comp.sys.mac:50809 comp.sys.apple2:209
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!e260-1g!c60a-3hu
From: c60a-3hu@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.054549.23368@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 05:45:49 GMT
References: <1848@crash.cts.com> <18491@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44)
Reply-To: c60a-3hu@e260-1g (Calvin Cheng)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 33

>In article <1848@crash.cts.com> jabernathy@pro-houston.cts.com (Joe Abernathy) writes:
>> someone wrote:
>> > As far as I can see, the gs is no competition for the Mac II.
>>
>>But of course you have no idea what you're talking about.
>
>  I think everyone knows who really has no idea what he is talking about!
>
>>The Macintosh -- anything less than the $10,000 Mac, to be accurate -- is a
>>kinda sort of desktop publishing machine. It's useless for numerics, it's
>                                           ???????????????????????????????
>>useless for graphics, it's crippled with sound ... and it's handicapped by an
> ?????????????????????      ???????????????????              ???????????
>>amateurish user base that's incapable of minimizing its inefficiencies.
>?????????????????????        ?????????    ??????????     ??????????????
>
This is an absoluate insult! You are trying to say that the average man in
the street to be some dirt slime jerk who's got the brain the size of a
peanut? Before you put off such a statement, you should be aware that you
represent only a minority among the huge fold of computer users. How many
people you think out there has the capability, willingness, time and
interest to tweek the system for "performance"? Programming these days is
mainly the reserve of computer professionals and enthusiasts (namely the
people who bother to read mail in this column).

>>>I don't give a rat's ass about the computer label wars, but those owners of
>>any brand of computer who spread misinformation based on the latest press
>>releases give me a case of chapped lips. You guess which lips.

COme on, I think everyone of us is at fault. We like to compare and comment
without even knowing much about what's going on elsewhere. This appear to be
the reply to some equally overblown statement. That's the problem to it all.
Cool it man!