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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Anthromorphising (was Re: Amiga will bump Mac.)
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.004444.4556@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 91 00:44:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.180203.4517@ariel.unm.edu>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:

>Mac has some problems, the image it has created and ...Mac is a male name going
>head to head (competing with) IBM.  A certain sign of a childish identity is 
>a competitive attitude toward father figures.  And Mac is trying to sue IBM
>over windows which furthers its image as a child refusing to accept father.

>I think C= should run some adds trying to settle this dispute Mac has with
>IBM to project an image of Amiga the peace maker since peace making is a trait
>strongly associated with an adult female. Amiga the cooperator with IBM who is
>nurturing and soothing to the angry little baby Mac. (Not that I want it settled
>it would just be good PR).  C= should also push its support for the same reason....Amiga the supporter-nurturer(sp?).  A mother fig PC may even be better than
>a father fig one.  It could nurture and support the young ones and cooperate
>with the adult users. 


  Was this some kind of early April Fool's joke??

Evan (just back from Spring Break).

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Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
Where can a nation lie when it hides its organic minds in a cellar dark and
grim?  They must be ...  very dim.