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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: leave -MB- ALONE!!!!!
Keywords: -MB-
Message-ID: <17649@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:34:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.175855.12336@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> dah@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com (Dave Haverkamp) writes:
>   Some times MB does come up with some very valid points in his posts.  I
>think of him as the young child who always asks "Why?".  Too many people 
>just flame MB without any thought.  I'm tired of seeing, "I'm going to put
>iastate in my kill file" or "MB get the hell out of comp.sys.amiga".  People
>like that are more close minded than MB.  At least MB has the courage to
>ask questions.  Are they afraid that his questions will make C= crumble?
>C= has been around for awhile, and should continue to be around in the future.
>
	Marc does bring up some valid points, but I think the main objection
against him his the way in which he presents them.  Rather than simply 
pointing out something that he thinks is lacking and would be useful to the
Amiga community, he decrees that the Amiga is doomed forever because it
doesn't have product X or capability y.

e.g.
	"Commodore should be working very hard to implement a standard device
independent graphics library so the Amiga can remain competitive in the
graphics market."  

	Translates into BarrettSpeak as:

	""Why hasn't Commodore put 24-bit color into every Amiga without change
in price?  Every computer on the market beats the Amiga's graphics!  CBM's
not even working on it!  There's no hope!  All is lost!"

	
	He also has a tendency to post "facts" whose validity he obviously hasn't
bothered to check on, such as the "Lynx has CMOS Amiga chips, why can't
Commodore be more like Epyx [which, BTW, folded before the Lynx hit
market..]", or his "Under $200 34010-based VGA cards."



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