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From: okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay, S J)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:Amiga Whirled UNIX bashing
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Date: 22 Feb 90 20:04:34 GMT
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>From: admiral%m-5.sun.com%mwunix@mwvm.mitre.org (admiral at m-5.sun.com@MWUNIX)
[CBM official reply, "don't believe everything you read, etc.]
>Better get a letter of to Amiga World also. In the lastest issue they again
>critize the Unix OS. CBM is working on a version of SVR4 (true?) which
>could be the Amigas last best hope for cracking the corporate and federal
>desktop. Meanwhile a major Amiga publication has twice now (that I've seen)
>done and axe job on Unix with half-truths and hearsay.

I've already fired off a salvo of well-deserved flames in their direction.
I am no longer disappointed and peeved at AmigaWhirled, but actually quite angry
and feel betrayed. They are knocking the best hope for survival the Amiga has,
and they are doing their best to keep the Amiga community a bunch of 
pimple-faced, game playing, A500 owners.(No flames please from A500 owners,
this isn't directed at you or your choice of a machine. I know many a starving
college student who could only afford a 500, despite their desire for a larger
machine).  Their characterization of UNIX as nothing more than another OS that
multi-tasks is unbelievably short-sighted.

>You don't have to like Unix but ANY hardware/software package than can
>help CBM sell more Amigas should be welcomed. Again, Amiga World shows
>all the intelligence of a blank eprom.
Too true...too true, and I know exactly what Doug Blarney is going to say back
too "But the average Amiga user doesn't care about UNIX". Hey!, I do!!...and
I've poured about $5000 into your advertisers pockets, so I'd say that makes
me worth a little more than being called "gangly" and "overrated". There are
a lot of home and casual users out there, but there are also a lot of us who
spend more than $30 on a game every few months. Don't abandon the Joe average,
but don't scare away the big fish either, which is exactly what they're doing
when they talk like that.

Here are my ultimate plans for my 2000...tell me if you think something like
this deserves a little more attention or respect considering the cost each item
and necessary software will cost.

1. 68030/68882 accelerator w/RAM expansion
2. SCSI streaming tape drive
3. AMIX (or whatever incarnation CBM's SVR4 comes out as)
4. Audio & Video digitizers
5. Genlock
6. High speed (HST or Telebit) modem.
7. assorted things like a multi-serial board, external HD, etc.

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Stephen Okay
OKAY@TAFS.MITRE.ORG   Technical Aide, The MITRE Corporation
					"Never let reality stand in the way
					 of a good media campaign" 

Disclaimer:Yes, you're right, these are *MY* opinions.