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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Programmer Praises the Mac
Message-ID: <8804222311.AA27640@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 88 23:11:21 GMT
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: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 

	Several reasons:

	(1) Just because I own an Amiga doesn't mean I'm not interested
	    in the Mac.
	    
	(2) In the early days of the Amiga, many people on both 
	    comp.sys.atari.st and comp.sys.mac blatently spewed out
	    incredible lies (mainly from comp.sys.atari.st) about
	    the Amiga and many Amigans were forced to monitor said
	    groups to correct said lies.

	I read comp.sys.atari.st for (#2).  I read comp.sys.mac for both
	(#1) and (#2).

	I have found that there are many people on both groups (comp.sys.mac,
comp.sys.amiga ... forget comp.sys.atari.st) that have many misconceptions
about the "other" machine.  Just as I tell you all not to consider the
Amiga a toy (because it isn't), I equally tell Amigans not to think of
the Mac as an overhyped junk box.

				-Matt