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From: gat@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Gary Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Amiga mentality
Summary: We Mac people are just as bad
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Date: 29 Mar 90 22:30:52 GMT
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GHGAQBA@BLEKUL11.BITNET writes:

[ discussion about specific Mac and Amiga stuff deleted... ]

>Finally: Amiga users only seem to feel 'good' about their computer if they
>can put another computer down. Mac users don't have this urge, because they
>don't need to. Is it perhaps because Amiga users have a bit of an
>inferiority complex ?

I wish the Mac users here were like the Mac users you know. :-) Just
mentioning IBM or DOS around the local users group will elicit a lot of angry
hisses.  I know as I had the pleasure of demoing SoftPC to them ;-) I have
seen Mac startup screens that put down the IBM, I have seen people use an IBM
icon as their trash can, and I even remember a shareware game from years ago
called 'Bash Big Blue' where you literally whacked the IBM corporate logo.

While most of this *is* in fun, it does reveal insecurities that many Mac
users still feel.  I don't know many Amiga owners, but none of those I do know
fit your description too well.

In any case, I don't think that any one group of computer owners is
particularly egregious in this way... sadly, I think we're all about
the same ;-)

Gary Thompson
Perpetual Student
University of Southwestern Louisiana
gat@gator.cacs.usl.edu