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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigans Unite - need help against pompous PC-oid!
Message-ID: <2984@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 18:56:52 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.2984
Posted: Mon Oct 26 18:56:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 05:37:09 EST
References: <131@otl.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Lines: 44
Keywords: Sic' em, boy!
Summary: let him be, he's right!


[LONG reposting omitted - see the referenced article]

Before a lot of you loyal Amigans jump all over this IBM fan's case,
take a look at the negative comments he made.  Aren't these exactly
the same bitches we've been passing back and forth about the Amiga for
a couple of years now, among ourselves?  Among friends criticsm is
taken to be meant to be constructive, but it hurts when an outsider
says it.  Still, a company that publishes a buss standard, changes it
while the machine is still being sold, and then replaces it for the
next upgrade, obsoleting all the add on hardware (yours and mine
included) DOES have a "game machine" mentality.  Responsible companies
don't do this kind of stuff to their users.  It is obvious that a lot
of the innovation ability left with the Los Gatos crowd.  I have said
often to anyone that will listen that IBM set back the microcomputer
world five years by luring all the development talent into making
clones just a little cheaper.  It makes me very sad that the folks
left at CBM thought this was the path of the future.  This kind of
thinking wasn't part of the Los Gatos effort, which is why the A1000
was such a big win.

I don't do music stuff, but all the responsible music types here with
experience with several machines say the Amiga has the _worst_ music
software among the major players.  Since the article was in response
to a request for help specificly by someone interested in midi, I
don't think it was out of line to recommend staying away from the
Amiga.  If the request had been from a graphics freak like me and a
response to "stay away from the Amiga" had been given, a little furor
might be in order, but this was just good advice in this case.

OK, the guy doesn't like the Amiga, and he sure didn't go out of his
way to present a balanced picture of what makes the A1000 a nice
machine, like multitasking.  Tastes vary.  But he didn't say anything
out of line, he just presented some distasteful truths in a large,
hard to swallow lump.  I don't think he deserves our flames.  The
person to whom his article was directed might like to see the other
side (if any) via email, though.  No sense abandoning even one sheep
to the wolves of White Plains.  ;-)

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