langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (12/11/87)
In article <6946@ccicpg.UUCP> harald@ccicpg.UUCP (Harald Milne) writes a high-heat, low-light response to trb@stag.UUCP (Todd Burkey)'s article <275@stag.UUCP> regarding a novel (for micros, Harald) use of MIDI. Todd also wrote >> all this arguments over which computer is better is kind of silly. This is something which, at least in the comp.sys.amiga community, I think we can all support. We've seen this discussion so many times, with the same path of conversation each time, that most of us have realized that the whole topic, as presented, is rather petty. Harald had some things to say that were somewhat informative, for example: >Psuedo multitasking is a specialty of Apple, in the form of the >Multifinder, I suggest you move on to comp.sys.mac to talk about this >nonsense. Psuedo not spoken here. But then offset the value of his comment with this gratuitous spur: >Speaking of multitasking, name ONE Atari anything that runs on ANY >Atari multitasking environments currently in progress. Just one. Todd had some fairly interesting things to say in his original article regarding his opinions regarding the Amiga and the ST, and qualified them by not only pointing out that they were based on his experiences in the past, and not on current fact. Harald referred to a number of Todd's comments as "stupid" and in several places strongly implied that Todd was lying about a number of issues, including of all things how many keyboard musicians Todd knows. Harald closed his "critique" with some more Atari-bashing, and then made some more comments about Todd. The point? The point is, even though Todd had some things to say about the Amiga, and even given that some of them were inaccurate, the bulk of Todd's article was of interest to both the groups it was posted to. Harald's response was lots of fun to read, but has turned the discusion into to yet another ST vs. Amiga flame war, and belongs in alt.flame. As do any responses to that article. If you cannot resist rebutting Harald's or Todd's claims -- as history has shown many of you will -- please edit your Newsgroups and Followup-to lines appropriately. For informative though opinionated commentary, comp.sys.amiga and comp.sys.atari is appropriate. Wanna make something of it? Take it to alt.flame. See you there. -- Be seeing you... --Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the only misfortune is to do it solemnly" --Michel de Montaigne