mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) (01/24/87)
[More tongue in cheek flamage] In article <243@gssc.UUCP> jdm@gssc.UUCP (John D. Miller) writes: >ok, enough of this crap about which is better: the amiga, mac, or atari. >they're all toys!! That's MICROtoys to you, BOZO! >*real* disk drives. i mean, what good is a little three and a half inch >jobbie compared to my 12-platter rm-05's? They're reliable? RM05'S! Gag me with a fork. I don't even put those on my network switches. They all get BIG disks. None of this silly little RM05 stuff. >i had brought some "real" software over to test this thing - you know, fire up >a couple makes an troff jobs and see what happens - but it seems that he didn't >have no nine-track for his little pee-cee. hrmph. What's this sillyness about tape drives? REAL computers don't do IO! That's what VAXen and other little boxes are for; so they can talk to the hyperchannel that talks to the I/O processor on real computers. I/O that happens at less than a hundred megabytes a second just ain't worth foolin' with for a real computer. >you can still dial-up to a real computer and do some real work, i suppose, No, I dial up to bigger toy computers (VAX 8800's, nowadays) and read mail and occasionally typeset something. REAL computers don't have dialin lines. >well, now wait a sec - you can use it as a typewriter. yeah, that's it. that's >the ticket. a $2000 typewriter!! you're all set!! i *knew* there was a >reason you had to have that thing. add a few bucks more for a cuisenart word >processor and you've got it!! Naw, for a typewritter, you need something that's almost worth noticing. I use an IBM 3090/200 (a Sierra, if ya know what I mean). > >-- jdm "My other computer is a CRAY." (x/mp-14, SN #301, to be exact) (It says so, right here on my Amiga!) mwm@lynx.berkeley.edu Joe Bob Hacker Just in case it's not obvious: :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)