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From: sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why the Atari ST "flame" was posted up...
Message-ID: <478@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 88 10:13:58 GMT
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Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University


> 	I didn't ask for it.  You are certainly entitled to your
> 	opinions, but WHY would you post this to comp.sys.atari.st?
> 	Are you trying to stir up some excitement, or what?
> 	If you guys want to rant and rave about stupid things like this,
> 	why not keep it to yourself?  Mail is good for that, you know.  

Normally, I would have kept it to myself (and MAILed directly to the
person involved), but I was angry with the person who'd "flamed" me just
because I put a personal opinion at the end of one of my postings.
I don't like being accused of posting "childish bulls**t" and being told
to take a course in logic (???), so I thought other people should see
some extracts from his MAIL to me, along with some 'arguments' he requested
I supply...
  Anyway, if you want to see a GOOD machine, forget the Amiga, Macintosh and
Atari ST - buy an Acorn Archimedes...I've been programming in ARM (RISC) code
for a couple of months now and it is BEAUTIFUL (so's the Archimedes - puts
all other machines below a MicroVAX 3500 to shame).

Richard K. Lloyd,          ***************************************************
Computer Science Dept.,    * JANET : SQRKL@UK.AC.LIV.CSVAX                   *
Liverpool University,      * UUCP  : {backbone}!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!SQRKL *
Merseyside, England,       * ARPA  : SQRKL%csvax.liv.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk  *
Great (?) Britain.         ***************************************************

"I have VERY strong opinions which are nothing whatsoever to do with the
University of Liverpool, so blame ME if I bitch about useless IBM PC clones,
even more redundant IBM mainframes and the terrible Atari ST..."