From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:13:34 GMT

In article <83760@ut-emx.uucp> ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
>[Perot sig and amiga babble deleted.  Please use English on the net,
>not child-talk.  Typical Amiga user.]
>
>1:  Perot lost the election.  You can change your .sig now.

And that is too bad.  Mr. Clinton may indeed do okay, but his recent retreat
from his campaign promises is not encouraging.

>2:  Anybody who gets an Emplant deserves an implant.  Preferbly a
>    3" drill bit in the head.  C= may talk about decent products,
>    but really SHAFTS anybody who develops for it.  C= computers
>    are great home computers, but they lack the horsepower,
>    connectivity, and expandibilty that Macs, NeXTs and PC
>    have had for YEARS.  Workstations need to be connected.
>    Amigas do not have the connections.  Networks or otherwise.

Hah!  Shows how ignorant you are.  I happen to be typing this on an A4000
with an A2065 Ethernet board, with the total price of said hardware much
less than a comparable NeXT or Quadra.  As for expansion, I have three 
Zorro III slots left, allowing for as much or more expansion than a Quadra
700 or NeXTStation.  After adding an SVGA board, HD controller, and a 
SoundBlaster Pro to my 486 at work, it only has three crummy ISA slots left.
Horsepower?  Well, the 040 that is in the A4000 is the same one as in the
Quadra 700 and NeXTStation and the Amiga is aided by the AGA chipset.  My
486-50DX at work may have a bit more raw CPU power, but it is still acting
like a brain-dead 8086 when running most software.

Please try to get a clue before making such broad statements in the future.

>3:  Please do not say that the amiga OS is as good as any other
>    OS.  I have met the guru more times than I care to remember.

That is usually due to the ignorance of the user more than anything else.
My A3000 is typically up for days at a time running all sorts of software,
including a near constant telnet session, ADPro, DPaint, emacs, mod players,
and others.  My A4000 has been up since Friday and has guru'ed only when
I tried to run a few EuroHacker demos.  Perhaps you should review what you
are doing and maybe educate yourself in how to properly use an Amiga before
you make such claims.

>4:  I DID look at the Amiga for a platform of development, but
>    when most programmers purge the OS to keep from crashing,
>    it is time for a change.

Your ignorance is truly amazing.  Did you step through a time-warp from 1987 
or something?  The only people who "purge the OS" are the EuroHackers, and
that is because they do not know any better.  Don't worry though, your 
decision did not result in any great loss for the Amiga community.  

>[I got the Nomex on now.  Waiting for Amigaoid counter-attack:-]

Looks like you got what you wanted.

>********** ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) **********
>Windows NT:                  * Disclaimer:  I speak for myself *
>                             ***********************************
>You WANT your hard drive trashed now.

Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu



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