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Subject: Re: Easy of programming, Mac, Amiga
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 20:46:16 EDT
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In article <954@usl.UUCP>, elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green) says:
>You must not be very demanding! I do alot of programming. One thing I
>like to do on Unix is to call up a shell window in GNU Emacs, compile
>my program, run it, and as the errors pop up, edit my program and do
>it all over again. I also suspend the editor alot to pull up dc or go
>brouse thru /usr/src/local looking for likely solutions, etc. I can
>see where, if you just use your Mac as a terminal or a word processor,
>you could prefer the Mac to an Amiga (that tiny monitor shure has nice
>looking characters!)... but while I can use my preferred work style on
>both Unix and the Amiga, I wouldn't be able to use it on the Mac due
>to the lack of multitasking. Programming the Mac sounds an aweful lot
>like programming my C-64 -- I HATE single-tasking computers, they're
>so awefully limited.
>
>
>Talk about your LIES!!!! The Amiga is right now reaching the point of
>takeoff. Within the last month, several pieces of hardware have been
>release for a suitable price that make the  Amiga competitive with any
>computer on the market today. For example, if I had an Amiga (just
>lusting after one, thank you), I could add 4 megabytes of RAM to it
>for under $1200... try that with your Mac! See ya, Mr. Computer Bigot!
>
>By the way, I think the Mac Plus is a nice machine... the Computing
>Center here has several Macs used by the secretaries (the techies
>generally have PC-Drones or other such machines, since they enjoy
>playing with soldering irons and you need a hacksaw to open a Mac).
>--
>
>      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
>        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)
>
>" In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
> people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

  First of all, learn to spell correctly. No one can respect your opinions if
 your posting looks like crap because of misspelling. Even as an Engineering
 major, I try to spell correctly.
  Second, LET'S CAN THIS @#$% & $ DISCUSSION ALREADY ! The relative merits of
 both machines are high, but the final answer will come down to YOUR OWN
 OPINION ! Let's try to help people out with this newsgroup instead of filling
 it up with garbage (this can also be said of the current 80x86 vs. 680x0
 discussion).
  Third, Mr. Green, you are as big a computer bigot as the person you
 criticized! You are bitching about the Mac's problems even louder than he
 attacked the Amiga's. Let's just say that they are both excellent machines,
 and one might be bought over the other, depending on the person and hi