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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL
Message-ID: <8810090523.AA27140@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 88 05:23:47 GMT
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Thad Floryan   [ thad@cup.portal.com ] Writes:
:In response to a letter by Fabio Favata (of Italy) extolling the reasons for
:the ST being the leading computer in Germany and England (oh really?), our
:favorite columnist writes (page 34):
:
:`` Thank you for the report.  One reason Atari and Amiga sell in Europe is
:because they don't have to pay so much attention to certifications by the
:FCC.  I do wonder if the FCC's real purpose here is to help the administration
:deal with the "too strong" dollar.  If so, I have news; they've been wildly
:successful.  - Jerry ''
:
:
:What IS that joker smoking?  First, in an inebriated state (and don't say

	Well, it *is* a well known fact that it takes a while for Commodore
machines to get FCC certification because they usually fail the first go
around... generally, they are closer to the line than other machines.
It is also a well known fact that sending ANYTHING through the FCC for the 
required certification takes forever anyway.

	How Jerry related this to sales figures for the Amiga and Atari,
and how he failed to mention that *ALL* brands are effected similarily,
I cannot guess.

:In *MY* opinion, Pournelle is totally incompetent to be writing ANYTHING
:about computers.

	In *MY* opinion too.  Some of the stuff is right, but too much is
wrong.  Like in a big way wrong.

					-Matt