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From: kevin@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU (Kevin J. Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Programmer Praises the Mac
Message-ID: <510@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 88 17:32:50 GMT
References: <23665@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <430026@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Organization: Stanford Data Center
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In article <430026@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes:
->David, Daivd, PLEASE watch what you say in your postings. I enjoy reading
->your postings, but please be careful about mentioning the AMIGA word. This
->newsgroup is haunted by seemingly masses of Amigaphyles looking for the
->slightist excuse to tell everyone in the Mac newsgroup how bad the Mac is &
->how great the Amiga is. I have never truely understood why these people 
->read an extreamly active newsgroup about a computer that they think is 
->inferior to thiers. If you refrain from using the AMIGA word, maybe, just
->maybe these Amigaphiles haunting the Mac newsgroup will refrain from
->subjecting those of us interested in the Macintosh with screens of my
->computer is better then your computer dribble (but why do they spend the 
->time to read about an 'inferior' computer????).
->
->TeriAnn


I wish I knew why these Amigoids do it as well.. the same thing happens
on comp.sys.atari.st as well, but it seems to happen even more, and get
nastier.  I guess they just need some way to rationalise their strange
purchase decision :-) :-) :-).
Computers seem to create more fanatical brand-name loyalty than just about
any other product that I can think of, and seems to make many people
defend their brand at all costs.
-- 
Kevin Burnett
Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre / Santa Clara Class of '88
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