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From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: More: Amiga vs the Mac
Message-ID: <864@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 20:07:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.864
Posted: Wed Oct  8 20:07:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 23:56:51 EDT
References: <855@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <1460004@hpcnoe.UUCP>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1460004@hpcnoe.UUCP> dec@hpcnoe.UUCP (Danny Cecil) writes:
>/ hpcnoe:net.micro.mac / carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) /  
 6:33 pm  Sep 26, 1986 /
>In article <855@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> ali@navajo.ARPA (Ali Ozer) writes:
>>[]
>>Just this morning I was talking to someone, a Mac user. I mentioned
>>the Amiga, and the person said "oh, what an awful machine." I said,
>>"really, what don't you like about it?" His reply was "oh the characters
>>are so big and ugly." I asked him when and for how long he used one,
>>and his reply was that he saw it recently at a dealer's window...
>
>   Tell him the characters are tiny and cute on a 9 inch screen.
                             ^
                        (My Remark)              
   

   This is in response to some email I received from an Apple employee.

   He feels I "owe the readers of net.micro.mac an apology" for what
he calls an "unprofessional" "petty" "spiteful" remark.

        
   Well, I will apologize for not realizing the original article was
cross-posted.  I am not in the habit of cross-posting. 

   As for "unprofessional", perhaps it was unprofessional to get sucked
into the my-machine-versus-your-machine stuff.  I was trying to wade
through it, hoping it would stop so I wouldn't have to capital K it.
But that "big and ugly" comment grabbed me.

   I don't know how to address "petty" and "spiteful" other than to say
that these colorful adjectives made reading email a whole new experience.
I hope that no one else interpreted my remark this way.  It was meant to
be a comment on some of the unfair comparisons of the two machines.
  
   I still think our characters could compete for cuteness if viewed
on the same size screen.

   

   
   
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