Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <20875@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 23 Apr 91 14:06:27 GMT References: <10867@uwm.edu> <6hdG18ik1@cs.psu.edu> <1748@sjfc.UUCP> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <1748@sjfc.UUCP> bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg) writes: >In article <6hdG18ik1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >Try out this sometime, mention the Amiga in one of your computer related >discussions with someone else and watch the propaganda flow. Like: "Yeah, >I've heard about that machines, so-and-so says [insert propaganda here]" And I suppose you think this is simply ignorance? Ha! Ha! Ha! It's the result of a long standing conspriacy, I tell you! You think IBM really thought their PC or the PC-DOS they had Microsoft write for them was any good, even back in '81? Of course not, it was simply a move at self preservation. IBM didn't want to be in the personal computer business at all, but realized that if the rate of growth of these machines during the 70's were maintained during the 80's, their mainframe markets would be in serious trouble. Realizing that it would be impossible to naturally restrain this market, IBM set out to build a new computer. Only, unlike other systems, this computer, which became the original PC, would be designed to cripple the personal computer market. It would be every so slightly better than the state of the art 8 bit systems out there at the time. It would be easily copied, but not easily improved. IBM made deals with Intel to keep the technology crippled at least through the mid 80's. And then they set out to convince the market as a whole that only an IBM PC, or the eventual clones, were worth of business computing. Any other system would be written off as a game machine, or a computer for hippies, or a hacker's machine, etc. Now does it all make sense? -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.