From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: Comdex/Quicktime released for the PC
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:42:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.181043.27311@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>Skip Sauls (skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu) wrote:
>:
>: But you have also said on many occasions that the 486 is faster on integer
>: than the 040.  While you may not intend to imply that the 486 is superior
>: to the 040, your tone often does.  So you say that people are reading too
>: much into your statements, but what do you expect?  Do you honestly believe
>: that the majority of the readers of this newsgroup (Amiga users) are going
>: to just sit back and say "Hey, Jerry has a point there, we really are a 
>: bunch of idiots for not realizing that the Clones are superior."?
>:
>
>That's ridiculous.  I have said that the 486 has slightly faster integer
>performance than the 040, yes.  But I never said anything about any CPU
>being superior to another.  Along comes Peter and accuses me of saying that
>the 486 is FAR superior to the 040.  Is that fair?  It's a lie, plain and
>simple, and his Amiga user status does not justify it.

Maybe not, but you have to keep in mind that people are going to read more
into your words than you may intend.  Saying that something is faster than
something else is implying that the former has superior speed and that the
latter has inferior speed.  Whether or not this is what you intended has
very little relevance if readers are misinterpreting what you write.  It 
may very well be the fault of the people who are reading and responding to
your posts and not with yourself, but you need to consider the fact that
you are the minority here and the majority always wins.  

In the real world, at least that small part of it known as the USA, you and 
other Clone users are in the majority and the Amiga has all but been defeated.
But in this magical fantasy land called the Internet, the Amiga owners in the
USA can join with our brothers and sisters overseas whose lands have not yet
been ravaged by the Clone juggernaut.  We meet in our pubs and exchange info,
stories, rumors, anecdotes, Data, and Lor, in much the same way that users of
other platforms do.  When someone comes in and tells us that what we do is
wrong, what we say is wrong, and that everything about us is wrong, we are 
going to get defensive.  Call it pig-headedness, foolishness, silly, stupid,
sheep-like, lemming-like, insane, inane, or whatever you will, but we are
going to act that way because of human nature.

This is not an excuse or an apology, just an explanation.

>: Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
>
>+-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+
>| JERRY J. SHEKHEL  | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
>| Drummers do it... |     Burlington, MA USA     | in my book of memories.   |
>|    ... In rhythm! |        jerry@msi.com       |         -- Guns N' Roses  |
>+-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+

Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate and Defender of the Amiga Way!
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu