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From: mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac jokes..
Message-ID: <213@touch.touch.com>
Date: 23 May 91 01:04:01 GMT
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In article <MWM.91May17125158@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <arctngnt.0833@amiganet.chi.il.us> arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes:
>   "Funny... I can go out and get an Amiga, with stereo sound, the only platform
>   on the market that can actually MULTITASK peacefully,
>
>Sigh. Amiga Snobs Strike Again.
>
>I convinced my mother to dump her CoCo for an Amiga. She's got an
>A500, and an A3000/25-50 on the Power Up program; she would have
>bought the A3000 instead of the A500 if the Power Up program had been
>available. Not a complaint about it from her, though.
>
>On the other hand, every time she reads an Amiga magazine and some
>ignoramous says "the Amiga has the first/only/best Multitasking in a
>home platform" she mentions it to me.
>
>Seems she's been running preemptive multitasking with a dynamic
>priority system since before the first Amiga was powered on (I
>convinced her to buy that one as well, and she never regretted it). On
>a machine that costs less than an A500, at that.
>
>	<mike

Yeah.  The coco was cool.  6809 running OS/9!  Very, Very good.  'course,
not much happening with it these days.  Maybe apple could show Radio
Shack how to market, and Radio Shack could show apple how to
engineer computers.

Amiga users do get smug about their multi-tasking.  I, for one,
can't imagine how the Mac ended up so braindead internally.  I mean,
it's one thing to market the first machine without it, but to
design your OS such that it is forever technically impossible?

IBM, of course, intentionally under-engineered the PC to insure
their larger machines would not be threatened.  But apple?  Not the
only 'huh?' decision, either.  In 1985, they released a FLAT FILE SYSTEM!
Oops, I guess that was 84.  same diff.  I remember when hard disks started
being used on the mac.  When users would open a fgile, in their 'standard
file' lists, they would see EVERY FILE ON THE HARD DISK!  hundereds of em!
(it was only 'heirarchial at the GUI level...a visual 'trick').

Didn't really mean to start flamin' macs...but they're so FLAMMABLE!