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From: jdm@gssc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
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Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 13:34:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 22 13:34:30 1987
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Reply-To: jdm@gssc.UUCP (John D. Miller)
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Summary: My dog's better than your dog.
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*** tongue in cheek flame on ***

ok, enough of this crap about which is better: the amiga, mac, or atari. 
they're all toys!!  

a buddy of mine has an amiga, so i went over to have a look-see and find out
what all this psychobabble was all about.  i found this puny litte box that
was hardly as big as my vt100!  he mumbled something about a 68 or other
"micro-processor" being able to outstrip a vax "on some operations."  like
what?  certainly not disk accesses!! these newfangled "boxes" don't even have 
*real* disk drives.  i mean, what good is a little three and a half inch 
jobbie compared to my 12-platter rm-05's?

i had brought some "real" software over to test this thing - you know, fire up
a couple makes an troff jobs and see what happens - but it seems that he didn't
have no nine-track for his little pee-cee.  hrmph.

so he showed me some graphics.  who needs 'em?  i don't program by drawin'
perty pitchers.  hell, i dunno about you, but my compiler uses TEXT, fer
crissake, and when the compiler don't do what i want, i talk to the assembler,
and if *that* don't fix it, i use od(1) and ipatch(1) to party on the bits as
they lie there sitting pretty on the disk.  graphics, ha!!  real programmers
don't *need* graphics.  better put a tourniquete on it before y'all BLT to 
death!  i always knew you boys had some strange, genetic DDA problems.

anyhoo, if y'all own one o' them pee-cees, don't fret too much.  you can still
impress your ignorant friends.  unless they been down to the video arcade and
seed some *real* neet pitchers.  that's okay though.  real programmers didn't
make them, either.

you can still dial-up to a real computer and do some real work, i suppose,
till yer damn kids wanna use the phone.

or, you can do your checkbook on it, if you got the extra time to write all
that stuff down twice.

well, now wait a sec - you can use it as a typewriter.  yeah, that's it. that's
the ticket.  a $2000 typewriter!!  you're all set!!  i *knew* there was a
reason you had to have that thing.  add a few bucks more for a cuisenart word 
processor and you've got it!!

me?  no thanks, i'll stick to troff.  real programmers don't need wizzy wigs.
unless their hair is falling out.

*** flame off =) ***

-- jdm

NOTE:  the above opinions may or may not be my own.  think what you will.