Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!gatech!udel!mmdf From: jax%well.uucp@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Flaming Scientific American "Trends In Computing" Magazine Message-ID: <4420@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:18:24 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 65 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 3825; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:08:38 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:08:33 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ab23339; 1 Oct 88 3:50 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa23320; 1 Oct 88 3:49 EDT From: "Jack J. Woehr" Subject: Re: Flaming Scientific American "Trends In Computing" Magazine Keywords: Draining swamps, swatting alligators Message-ID: <7257@well.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 88 02:35:27 GMT Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <8809300257.AA20934@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > >jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes: >> An open letter: >>... >> fire the lot of you and hire a slightly more competent journalistic >> staff. If Commodore sues, so much the better. I have cut > > I think that's a great letter! But remove the part about "If >Commodore sues...". I don't think Commodore could sue, even if they wanted >to, and I doubt that they would anyway. > > Besides, if you remove that little section you give the letter a >nice light tone to it (i.e. somebody is likely to read and remember it instead >of read the ending and throw it away). > > -Matt Matt, you and Leo Schwab have made and the same point, which jax concedes. As you may have guessed, I really blew my top that day! Here's the background: I work in the controller industry, programming in Forth. The client decided that he wanted the impossible in record time. The *only* way to get him what he wanted was to grab an Amiga quick and stick it in the system as a controller. So the dummy spent a month hemming and hawing about how the Amiga wasn't IBM compatible ( yes, i mentioned the BridgeBoard) until it became no longer possible to meet his deadline. Happy ending: we saved the sale, still using Amiga as development platform, will make new deadline and collect about 1/4 M$. But honest to goodness, there are enough ignorant people out there without *SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN* of all revered institutions *CONTRIBUTING* to the stupidity! My apologies to the gang for turning a really nice flame into a weenie roast! The next gang of sonsabitches i fry won't get off so easy! {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} {} {}