From: johnsd2@jec326.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Norman Johnson)
Subject: Re: Mac & IBM advocates read this!
Reply-To: johnsd2@rpi.edu
Organization: Information Technology Services, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:52:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.011833.11124@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls) writes:
|> Mac & IBM advocates:
|> 
|> Just out of curiosity, what other newsgroups do you guys read?  I sometimes
|> read the Mac groups but I cannot ever recall seeing any posts by Corey Hauer
|> or Justin Sullivan, but Evan Torrie seems to show up on occasion.  As I do
|> not frequent the IBM/PC groups, I do not know about about the posters there.

Well, I read comp.os2.misc, c.s.mac.system, c.s.mac.progamming, c.s.mac.misc,
c.s.mac.digest and c.windows.ms. I don't post a lot to any of them.

I've been known to post inot the Windows/MacOS/OS2 flamewars on
c.windows.ms and c.s.mac.system (or was that misc), but those
boards have a legitimate purpose other than orguing OSes, so I hesitate
to reply as much as I do here.

The other (non-computer) board I read and post to are none of your business.
Neither are these, for that matter, but I figured why not?
They already know I'm a MacHead...

|> This is not meant to start a flame-war (although I would not be surprised if
|> some fool edits the post to make it look like it is),

Awwwwww please?

|> I just want to know 
|> whether or not you read and post to other groups.  After reading the Mac 
|> groups I can see why you would rather hang around here, as they are usually
|> boring unless Apple has recently introduced some new technology.  I used to
|> think that comp.sys.mac.advocacy was needed, however, Mac owners seem to be
|> past the insecure stage that Amiga owners (myself included) are stuck in.

Boy are they ever boring- I have to skip a LOT of articles in c.windows.ms
to get to the nice juice stuff. :) I read the others for the info, not
to post (usually)

|> While I have shouted "go away" as loudly as other Amiga advocates here, I
|> realize that without you guys here to constantly annoy us, we would have 
|> very little to talk about.

Come on now. This is comp.sys.amiga.advocasy. Do you REALLY just want
to advocate to other Amiga owners/fans? Really? Honest? :)

And it's worth repeating that the reason *I* annoy you is because
I learn more about the Amiga that way. I tried just asking, but the
resulting were piddling compared to what I can pick up in a flamewar.

|>  It also proves that the status of the Amiga has
|> improved considerably over the last few years.  We used to argue with the
|> Atari ST owners while the Mac and IBM owners just ignored us.

<grin> Remember, up to about a year and a half ago the big battle
was MacOS (gui) vs MS-DOS (cli); AmigaDOS (both) didn't seem like much
of anything. Now that the DOSheads have mostly converted to Windows
(apparently) there's no need to "prove" teh worth of a GUI. Even
the most Amigacentric AmigaHeads I've seen here say "oh and it
has a GUI *too*!" [and no, I am not going to name names]

Now Windows seems (to MacHeads) to have litterally nothing over MacOS,
its just not much of a battle IMHO [if we ignore the price thing that is-
that battle is to messy for me!];

So, the ST is dead, MS-DOS is dead, Windows is lame, what's left?
U guessed it, AmigaDOS...

|>  Now, the ST
|> is dead, the Amiga lives on, and Mac and IBM owners somehow feel threatened
|> by the Amiga, even though we do not have SVGA, QuickTime, OS/2, Pink, Casper,
|> SoundBlaster, etc., etc.

Now now now. Don't jump to conclusions. How many MacHeads post here
a lot? How many are doing it because they are insecure [I do it to learn
about the Amiga, or so I _think_, and others may do the same]? Now then,
how many OTHER MacHeads are there? See what I mean?

|> Considering how little the Amiga has changed/improved over the years, it is
|> amazing how the attitude towards it has.

-- 
			- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0