Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Multiple newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.004842.8492@utstat.uucp>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 00:48:42 GMT
References: <4872@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <4872@crash.cts.com> mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes:

[history of II, various ramblings, reads comp.sys.mac.* deleted]

>Personally, I don't see an end in sight until a lot of Apple II users
>realize that being rigid in their loyalty to the Apple II series is no
>longer healthy, nor admirable.  Today, it is just plain stupid.  Imagine
>hordes of C-64 users clutching their plastic boxes to their chests,

This is an absurd statement, as well as being totally insensitive to many
AppleII() users who have enjoyed their computers for a long time( I am
a very new GS user who comes from the Mac world and uses Unix systems at
work).          

>It is time to open eyes, close mouth, and just listen for a while.

What is it we are supposed to be listening for? I am happy with the GS,
bored with my Macs( although they are nice but very limited computers).
One thing that often happens to users who gravitate to the Mac world is
that they become intoxicated as to its perceived power. There is a whole
cult built up around it. But I find it rather annoying to be lectured
to by commercial vendors in the Mac/GS world. I'm the customer, and in
the way our world works it is the customer who should have their concerns
addressed and not the other way around. One thing I won't do is pander
to the whims of the commercial vendors whether they are Apple or The
Morgan Davis group.

Philip McDunnough
Professor of Statistics
University of Toronto-> philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]