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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga is NOT a multi-tasking computer system !!
Summary: Write letters!
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Date: 24 Aug 88 18:42:43 GMT
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Look folks:  when stuff like this happens, the best thing to do about it
is to write letters (electronic or paper) directly to the people
responsible.  Commodore probably won't do much about it, and the media
will continue to ignore that which they know nothing about.  If the
machine's biggest fans---the users---write letters to the journals and
programs that blatantly ignore Amy in the fields at which she excels, then
maybe they will sit up and take notice.  They certainly won't notice if no
one tells them.

So the next time some TV program or some computing journal comes out with
a lie or a half-truth like "OS/2 is the first to bring the power of
multitasking into the hands of the home users" or some such hype, write to
them and correct them.  That's the best way for them to find out.  The
letter doesn't need to be snide or "holier than thou", just factual and
corrective.  And if you don't know of an address for something like
"Computer Chronicles", usually the local broadcast station that carried it
will be able to tell you.  Maybe it won't do any good, but it certainly
can't do any harm.

The only exception here, of course, is Pour-nell.  There's no hope for
him.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>