bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (02/08/87)
Seemingly the biggest question in Netland is "Which is truly superior? The
Amiga, Mac, or Atari?" However, this question cannot be answered, because
it is the *wrong question*. The correct question is
"_Who_ is truly superior? The Amiga, Mac or Atari _owner_?"
Some recent postings provide insight. They were cross-posted, apparently for
no particular reason but really to allow psychological analyses.
the Subject:
Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos
sent to Newsgroups:
comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.ibm.pc
>The success of IBM is not particuarily due to their products, from a
>HISTORICAL viewpoint. The success of IBM has to do with their abilities in
>those avenues that attract the customer, marketing - sales - customer support.
> [ and blahblahblah ]
And this is what came back:
>ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>
>A humble request: Could the discussion of the origin of MS-DOS be
>restricted to the newsgroup "comp.sys.ibm.pc" ? Or even just there
>and in comp.sys.os (or whatever is appropriate ?).
Humility. Commodore taught them humility. THEY only run at 7.16MHz,
and their fancy tricks are achieved by *special chips*, the same sort of
technique that distinguished the VIC-20 from the lesser home video games.
sunny@hoptoad.UUCP (Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>Please get all this MS-DOS and Amiga !@#$%^&*( out of comp.sys.mac
Note the almost-controlled hostility and aggressiveness -- over-compensating
for a classic inferiority complex. The screen is NOT too small, and we'll
SUE anyone who says otherwise! We were FIRST! WE'RE the Original! Us! Us!
ihm@minnie.UUCP (Ian Merritt) writes:
>Why is this discussion on comp.sys.m68k?
A question. Questioning, always questioning. No certainties, no constancy.
No standards. Nothing in common with anyone else. Not user interfaces, not
disk formats, not hardware busses. The fastest machine this side of a Cray
may be a 68020, but only if you write your own code. Fortunately, there is
'C', so code can _easily_ port to any 680x0 machine. (As easily as anything
*ever* ports between 4.2BSD and SysV, or was that Ultrix and System 7, or
maybe 2.7BSD...?)
No Atari enthusiasts have replied. They're all out trying to run IBM-PC
emulators faster than IBM PCs.
As for the MS-DOS freeks, they're all repeating and contradicting each other
as usual. MS-DOS is either an upgrade to CP/M, or a downgrade to RT-11
(or an upgrade to RT-11), or maybe TOPS-10, or TOPS-20. Meanwhile, everyone
wants to put an 80386 chip onto their motherboard, a 68020 board in any
available slot, and Xenix on their oversized disks.
Send flames directly to my home -- I can't afford to pay my heating bills.
...Bob "REAL MEN use slide rules!" Montante...