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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anthromorphising (was Re: Amiga will bump Mac.)
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.181603.19355@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 18:16:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.180203.4517@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr3.004444.4556@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Apr3.004444.4556@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>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.


No, but just go ahead and take it as one.  I knew I was sticking my head out
when I wrote it.


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