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From: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia...DROP IT!!!
Message-ID: <14318@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 14 Jun 91 23:47:03 GMT
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Reply-To: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
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OK, OK, this is absolutly the last thing I will say on this topic.  Let me
apologize for fishing.  I could not resist rubbing yet another pompous
know-it-all into a frenzy.  (I am pretty good at fishing it seems.) I was not
trying to bash the Amiga at all, only the typical snobery of Amiga users.
It's funny how people get so personal about their hardware.

And as for open-mindedness, you know "arc", you made quite a few assumptions
about who I am just because I posted from an account at a lab.  I happen to
be an engineer and a person, not an "Oxy-Infested la-bore-atory freek."

The reason I brought "market" into the discussion is precisely because I get
so tired of hearing about how fantastic, great, easy, cheap, incredible,
mind-blowing, fast, etc. the Amiga is.  I think it is reasonable to ask "if
it's everything you say it is, why don't people buy it?"  I also think my
answer to that question is reasonable:  "the Amiga marketing people suffer from
the same attitude problems as most Amiga users."

I will not be posting anything else on this topic.  If you would like to
continue the battle, "arc" (or any other Amigasnob), let's do it via email.

-- James
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
osborn@ux1.lbl.gov