From: seifert@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael S. Seifert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga Blitter 40% slower than Atari Blitter (???)
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:52:30 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1au6n2INNd1v@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.050321.3116@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   The biggest Amiga killer is Commodore.  With so little support for the
>>machine in the U.S., with few improvements in marketing here, and with 
>>Commodore's U.S. subsidiary losing more than $20 Million per year for the
>>parent company, it is safe to say that the Amiga is dead here.
>
>Thank you, Marc "CDTV is dead" Barrett, from that little piece of
>information from the local mortuary.  I don't know what we'd all do,
>living in the little imaginary worlds with little imaginary friends,
>without you, our pillar of reality in a sea of illusions.  For even
>when we, mere mortals, see what we believe to be blue skies, you
>insist on telling us it is night, the sun has fallen from the sky,
>never to return.
>
>You've got this fetish with calling things dead, and I'm not sure
>whether it's just some repressed sexual attraction towards necromantic
>rituals involving big, steel-tipped, sharpened dildoes, or if you're
>just on a whole lot of pcp. I don't know how many times its been said,
>but you obviously have a problem with discerning someone who believes
>that as long as C= is a company it has a chance with someone who
>actually gives a flying f*ck about your opinions.  You constantly post
>your outlandish drivel about how C= is dead, CDTV is dead, AmigaVision
>is dead...  and you back it up with things you "hear from friends",
>unsubstantiated "facts", or just blatant lies.  Everyone who knows you
>knows you're a developer.  Some people give that credit.  Those of us
>who know the very LITTLE that developers actually get told know a hell
>of a lot better that you're just spewing off things just to do it.
>
>If you'd DO something with that developer's status, perhaps you could
>become a commercial developer and actually have half of the
>information you claim to.  Fortunately, that's got an ice cube's
>chance in hell of actualy happening, because I honestly believe you're
>too incompetent to do anything ground-shattering.
>
>You've got this magical way of getting on peoples nerves, and it's
>about time I said all of this to you, even if it is through the news
>system.  People are tired of hearing it, I don't know if you noticed.
>For a while, everything was fine.  Maybe you had some homework or
>something, but for some reason, you had shut up, even if for a little
>while.  It's amazing how quickly one can grow attached to the "quiet
>times" between your postings, the time when the only stupidity in the
>group comes from non-Amiga users and people who just got their net
>access.  And yes, Marc, THAT is a joke.  Because I wouldn't MAKE a
>statement like that without following it with a generous supply of
>smileys.  However, you constantly make that same KIND of statement,
>having the same impact, when you whine, rant, and drivel the kinds of
>famous statements you're best known for.
>
>>   And please trim your signature to five lines or less.  I am not impressed
>>with your ability to scan an image and run a bitmap-to-ascii utility on it.
>
>And on top of that, you're even an impolite asshole.  How rude.
>
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