From: jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jon J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Microsoft is Welcome
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:18:16 GMT
Organization: SUNY AT BUFFALO Computer Science

In article <1992Oct12.054138.23093@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>In article <1992Oct10.061752.12644@coplex.com> dannie@coplex.com (Dannie Gregoire) writes:
>>iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>
>No, ye clueless one. It's comming from me. Not microsoft. Get a clue.
>I've been an Amiga advocate and user for many many years. Before
>that I owned a C-64.

The Amiga has been key to the development of many programmers (C= V20, C64,
C128 then Amiga for my self).  Many of these good programmers and other
wise computer people end up working for big companies because of there
skills.  To show a problem or outright hate twards a computer company could
put one out of a job.  

I have to work with IBM compatables, and have been writing Vision software.
I have worked with MS Windows and have sence switched to DESQview/X for
better operating system support.  (I would rather have switched to the
Amiga in the first place, which offers better hardware and Operating System
suppoet, which comes free with every computer...)

>
>>(Windows is NOT an operating system).
>
>Really? Why not? It provides all of the services an OS does. Except
>for Disk IO which it gets from DOS, and even DOS will be
>gone from Windows sooner than you think. Windows provides
>features that should be in AmigaDOS, but are not (like RTG).

Well, MicroSoft could have done a little better job with the internal
OS in the first place.  Premtive Multitasking is kind of been around a
while, and it is hard to write non-interactive services and programs
to run in windowes with out setting up a timer event, with a limit of 16.

In a word, MS Windows is no UNIX.  I wish it offered X Window support...

But I wish the Amiga offered X Window support for that matter...

>
>>Perhaps microsoft dribble like yourself might also like to know that
>>the Amiga is quite capable of running PC software (including windows
>
>You fool. I own an Amiga 3000 /w 6MB ram and 130 MB disk.
>I'm completely aware of it's advantages and features. I even
>know how to program it. There are bundles
>of Amiga users here at MS. Like I've said before we're not all
>blood sucking MS-DOS canibals here at MS.

I think the idea of smacking someone just because they work for MicroSoft,
which by the way got its BIG start form all those non IBM/PC's out there,
really sucks.  I hope that MicroSoft will one day rediscover the Amiga.

MS Word for the Amiga would be a nice addition.  

But look what Amigas are used for.  Video!  No other computer can
come close for Video options.  

I just added 16MEG to my A3000 and will be getting a Video Toaster very
soon.  Hell, add an 400MEG hard drive and a 113MHZ 24 Bit Video Card.

I may even put it next to my 50MHZ 80486 with 8 Meg of RAM machine,
running DESQview/X and MS Windows...

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As a side note.  The Amiga does some things better than any other computer.
The Amiga does some things as well as some other computers.
The Amiga may also do a piss poor job at many things that other computers
do well.

Its Amiga Owners, Developers, Users.... People! that will make all
the difference...  Going out and attacking a person for stupid reasons
can only hurt your position!  Give it up!

-- 
--Jon-J-Allen--jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu--Computer-Science--SUNY-@-Buffalo-NY--
 "Who's come to slay the dragon - Come to watch him fall?
  Making arrows out of pointed words.  Giant killers, at the call." - RUSH
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