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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Note on Atari newsgroup
Message-ID: <1576@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 06:56:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 06:56:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 03:31:55 EST
References: <8703180813.AA29897@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8703180813.AA29897@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Now, being an Amigan, I find it my duty to correct such mistakes by
>	a small posting to the offending newsgroup.  Of late, there have been
>	quite a few messages from other Amigan's on the atari newsgroup
>	(mainly in response to some poor atarian's statement about processor
>	compatibility between 680x0's), correcting the atarian's one line 
>	mistake with a 4 paragraph paper delving deep into the reasons why the
>	Amiga *does* support multiple processors... etc...
>
>	Is it possible that we can gain some measure of self control and
>	refrain from such *long* postings when a line or two will do?  After
>	all, if we keep on doing this to their newsgroup, we might get our
>	selves into a network-newsgroup war (the worse kind!)....  Show some
>	pity fellow Amigans!.
>
>				-Matt

Matt, please remember that net response time varies - you will probably get
this tomorrow, others won't see it for a week.  When there is something that
many people feel a need to respond to, many replies will get launched before
any other response becomes evident.

Personally, I try to let simple mistakes and comparisons in the Atari group
slide.  In this case, I felt there was considerable potential for confusion
since this person was presenting "facts" he had heard from Amiga users.

In my responses, I will try to correct the misinformation and present enough
background that people can understand the issues and possibly the reason for
the confusion.  If Dave or I got carried away, it simply because it *hurts* to
see one of positive features of the Amiga software so abused...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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