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From: ehsu@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (Eric Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Serious Computing (Re^2: Apple shoots own foot)
Summary: I like games.
Message-ID: <1500@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 21:56:21 GMT
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In article <1990Feb4.102221.23801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>In article <1361@crash.cts.com> paul@pro-europa.cts.com (Paul Hutmacher) writes:
>>        The Amiga is a superior machine because there are more game titles
>>        produced and ported to the Amiga platform than there are for the Apple
>>        IIgs platform.
>
>Whoopee shit!  So you can get more games for the Amiga.  Does that make it the
>better machine?  I don't think so.  Games are the last thing I'd consider when
>buying a computer.  Your logic is on the level of a ten-year-old joystick
>junkie, apparently.  Thanks to you, I know where the games are now.  When I
>want to do serious computing, I'll stick to the Apple II.

	Whoa! Let's calm down here. I sympathize with Scott's annoyance,
but let's not get so uppity. Some twenty-year-olds (me !) like games too.
In fact a fair number of CS majors (I'm not one) that I know grew up on IIs.
They first played games on the Apple II and then began hacking out programs 
on the II, then emerging into full CS-dom in college. I wonder if the same 
sort of cycle is happening on the Amiga machines? I dunno. 
	Now that I've digressed, I'm remembering a little of the fun and 
comraderie of me and my friends programming little Applesoft games, trying
to top each other. To me, that's what personal computing's all about. I kind
of miss that now. Maybe it's because I'm at college now, but I don't see much
of that any more. Does it still happen? That is, are there any non-serious 
programmers out there?

						Nostalgically,

						Eric Hsu
						ehsu@husc4.UUCP
						ehsu@husc4.Bitnet
Eric Hsu                           ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc4.UUCP