[comp.std.internat] Difference American vs. European Amiga

xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/27/90)

I have  a great idea.   Rather than  merely   toasting each  other for  not
adopting the design of the AC power system from where it was  invented, but
instead choosing  an  incompatible standard, so that  we can fight 120 volt
versus 220  volt, and  60 Hertz versus 50 Hertz  wars forever;  rather than
just flaming  each other  for  not  adopting  TV standards  from  where the
technology was invented, but instead choosing an  incompatible standard, so
that we can fight PAL versus NTSC wars until hell  freezes over;  let's all
play Not Invented Here,  and drag our  feet all  the  way to the  standards
meetings a while longer,  so we  can adopt different  and incompatible HDTV
standards,  upward  compatible only  with  our  own  jingoistic existing TV
broadcast industries, in formats completely worthless for assisting digital
display and computing (no Powers of Two _here_, no sir, we don't believe in
them), so that we  can go on raving  about  how this  stuff written  by the
other guy/gal that  works for every  Amiga  computer available for  testing
within a thousand  miles of the  author won't work on _my_  Amiga computer,
well into the twenty second century and beyond.  Isn't this _fun_?

Sheesh!  Quit bellyaching and get involved.  And if anyone wants to mention
the only country in  the world that has  been officially metric for over  a
century  and never implemented the  standard, I have a  flag here I want to
wave a while to change the subject.

;-)

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