Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!ni.umd.edu!uc780.umd.edu!cs450a03 From: cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: RE: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: <29MAR91.20331910@uc780.umd.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 20:33:19 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> Sender: usenet@ni.umd.edu (USENET News System) Organization: The University of Maryland University College Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: uc780.umd.edu ckp@greybn.com (no name that I can see) writes: >The Amiga 500 is a game machine. This has nothing watever to do with >the machine's technical capabilties, or what some minority of users does >with it. It is a game machine because of the mentality of the typical >user (remember that no one reading this message is a typical Amiga >user), because of Commodore's stillborn marketing efforts (at Christmas, >Commodore itself was comparing the A500 to the Nintendo), and only at >the last because of the original design goals. Meta-spam: Any time you see a statement of the form "A is B" it's a good idea to watch out for looney-tunes. Here we have the wonderful concept that "Ami500 is game because mind of typical user and any examples aren't typical." Spam-spam: Hey, howcum this guy can read minds and I can't??? -------- Look, whether or not something is a workstation ought to at least include a definition of what a workstation is. If "workstation" has only PR meaning to you, well... so? Some people use workstations to work. Raul Rockwell