From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: PC (OS/2) / Amiga debate -- hopefully a rational debate, an I an ideali
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:36:08 GMT
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addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison) writes:
>
>>Overpriced it may be, but at $199, it puts to sleep all the arguments
>>about video being super-expensive on PC's.
>
>Your "solution" does not address gen-locking.
>

Doesn't gen-locking requires an external device even on the mighty Amiga?
Such devices are hardly free of charge, are they?

>
>I remember several months ago, Jerry, that you said that you posted in
>this group in order to be a bullshit detector.  After all this time,
>maybe it is about time that you finally begin using a bullshit detector
>on what you write before you send it out.
>
>Your comment about how the Boffin Limited VGA-to-NTSC converter works
>is your opinion.  However, you are passing it off as a fact.  Furthermore,
>you are posting a lie.
>
>[Explanation deleted]
>

Yes, I understand that I was wrong about this.  I apologize. 

>
>So again I ask:
>
>Why do you ask others to limit themselves to facts when you don't?
>

No need to rub it in, although I deserved it.  Somehow I got into the NTSC
video discussion, which is definitely outside my area of knowledge.

>
>Maybe you remember how Microsoft proclaimed that their goal was to
>extend MS-DOS towards XENIX.  I found this interesting considering
>how much MS-DOS (being based on [if I remember the name correctly]
>Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Systems [or some such] which was modeled
>after CP/M) resembled DEC's proprietary operating systems.
>

Well, I wasn't yet using computers in those days (around 1981?), but
Big Bill has been known to give people the Microshaft, the worst being
a couple of years ago, when he charged $2,600 for the Microsoft OS/2 2.0
Developer's Kit, and then "changed his mind" about OS/2.

>>
>>What a loss.  Let's get something straight.  IBM has always had excellent
>>(if costly) support.  They supported the PC and XT for a lot longer than
>>any other vendors supported their bottom-end clones.
>
>Just where was IBM's excellent support for the PCjr?
>

Probably in the place where Commodore keeps its support for the VIC-20,
the Plus/4, and all of its other mistakes.  Speaking of mistakes, big
companies are allowed to make them too, right?

>
>Actually, some users might read the installation guide, maybe even try
>the configuration on their own, and them go pay someone to do the
>configuration.
>

IMHO, this just doesn't happen.  I certainly haven't known any such users,
nor have I seen any advertisements for "PC configuration" services.  If these
services were typical as you say, wouldn't they be a bit more visible?

>
>Just remember that the typical user does not read and post to Usenet.
>

The typical user also buys a complete system.

>
>Richard
>
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