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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia...DROP IT!!!
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Date: 15 Jun 91 22:57:40 GMT
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In article <14318@dog.ee.lbl.gov> osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) writes:
>
>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.

I don't think "snobbery" is the right word here - "religious fanaticism" is
much more apt for describing SOME computer users (you know the type I mean - 
the ones who participate in these stupid "my computer is better than yours"
flame wars). I'm not sure what causes this (must be a great Psych Ph.D 
dissertation buried in there somewhere), but it seems to occur most often 
in owners of "underdog" platforms, i.e. those that don't sell as well as 
ISA-based machines. Perhaps the fact that their chosen platform is outsold 
by a couple orders of magnitude in terms of units sold really frosts their
fritters - who knows? Whatever it is, it turns them into harddisk-thumping
JehovAmiga's Witnesses, who then descend upon the net and attempt to convert
others to their cause (or at the very least slam the owners of other platforms
for their "stupidity" for not choosing God's Gift to Computing instead).

I often wonder if some sort of deprogramming therapy would be helpful to
these types - I mean, it works for former Moonies and Scientologists; why
wouldn't it work for these Amiga Worshippers, too?

-- 
Scott Coleman                                                    tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.