Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Move
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:18:56 EST
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy

In article <1993Jan22.162023.19198@usl.edu>, das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson
Daniel A) says:

>I COULD have cited a directory named "Falcon 3.0 which AMigans do not have"
>or one called D:\Games\Ultima Underworld
>or one called D:\Games\Stunt Island - no Amigans apply.

>But I didn't, cause I've pointed this out a lot already.
>:-)

cd work:games/flashback

Now, you were saying? :-) And gee, at least OUR game companies don't
use their customers to beta-test...

>>|> >Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate who hates using the retard slash
>>|>
>>|> Why?
>>
>>Because it's in the SH*TTIEST location on most keyboards!

>Geez, it sounds like Amigans have found the one last thing  about
>PCs that they can latch onto and bash.

Correction: the one last thing, in a long, long line of things. :-)

>REALLY, it ain't so bad!

Actually it is. If it was always in one place it wouldn't be so bad,
since at least one could get used to it. But the damn thing MIGRATES.
It's almost as bad as the bloody stupid switching of CAPS-LOCK and CTRL
on this PS/2 keyboard I'm typing on. (Yeah, like we use CAPS LOCK more than
CTRL... especially since, this being a genuine IBM PC, it crashes all the
time so I have to keep reaching for CTRL-ALT-DEL... :-) )

>>Dan, you're one of those people who can point out problems ad nauseam (sp?)
>>for any other machine, but fails to acknowledge even the most glaring
>problems
>>on his own system. PC people are, for the most part, all like that when it
>>comes to the retard-slash (Thanx, Skip! 8D ),

Count me in! "Retard-slash"... heh heh...

>>the 640K barrier, and a few other things.

>Well, you Amigans are guilty, too, then.  Have you ever been told
>'don't touch that while <such and such> is active, the computer will
>crash if you do'??

Not for several years. My A3000 with 2.04 never crashes. Well, to be fair,
occasionally when using old and/or buggy programs it pops up a Recoverable
Alert, or a system failure requester; in both these cases you get dropped
back to the system to save your work or do whatever you like. In fact, with
a system failure requester you can usually just shove the darn thing to the
back and keep working with no trouble whatsoever. Even these two events are
VERY rare, and sudden data-losing type crashes NEVER.

>OS/2, the OS we WERE talking about, doens't have any 640K barrier.  And

Actually, Dan, we WERE talking about MSDOS. Yes, scraggly old MSDOS. You
don't have to defend it; it's okay. You don't see me trying to defend
Workbench 1.0, do you? And MS-DOS 5.0 is far worse in design than even THAT...

>what does it say for Amigas that MSDOS can run some better applications than
>an Amiga with NO 640K barrier.  Right, that there is the ol' Amiaa
>'I might not have a hard drive or more than a meg, anyway' barrier.  Note:
>YOU sure don't point things like this out, ad nauseum.

True in part, I will admit, but it's more perception than reality.

>>Some people are so paranoid...

>Yeah, silly, eh?

Right. It's just nuts.

cd "Work:Games/Elite II - Frontier"
frontier

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