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...