From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez)
Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
Organization: UPR-Mayaguez--ASEL Lab
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:52:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.201334.23875@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
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|> >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.

   Yep.  Practically 50% of the people I know at least from the PC or Mac
that advocate their machines as the ultimate solution (read fanatics)
are pretty ignorant about the Amiga.  It's incredible how much they
talk about the Amiga, and when asked if the have used one, they say no.

 DISCLAIMER:  This comment does not apply to those Mac Users that have used
the Amiga, know about the Amiga, and support whatever they say against
the Amiga with real facts.  To those that do that: congratulations, you are
exceptions.
  
|> 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.
|>

   Have this guy run DesignWorks?  Here DesignWorks have crashed like
the Mac is designed to crash.  Of course I think that this must be either
1. Bad installation of the software (which tells indirectly that the Mac
   is not as plug n' play as some people say it is)

2. This version was not designed for System 7.xx (still crashes under 6.0.x)

   If I used the same reasoning as the Mac user quoted above, I would say
that System 7.xx is trash (well,... who knows... :-)  )

|> >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.  

   Yep, again more ignorant from the Macintaple user talk... Tsk Tsk...

|> >[I got the Nomex on now.  Waiting for Amigaoid counter-attack:-]
|> 
|> Looks like you got what you wanted.

   Ah, I couldn't resist to help "Skippy" :-)

|> 
|> >********** 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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