From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead? Date: 2 Oct 1992 14:22:25 GMT
In article <1af47iINN8g7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>
>In a previous article, system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) says:
>>> and many now consider it dead. It certainly isn't - there's still a huge fol
>>> lowing - but it's not as "alive" as it could/should be.
>>>
>>Being an amiga owner I have to agree here. Not dead merely sleeping.
>>
>
>is it just me, or does it seem that Amiga owners are the most fanatical
>of all???? :)
Probably, although I know some pretty fanatical Mac owners. It could have
something to do with lots of people investing lots of money in lots of hardware
that becomes obsolete too soon (with the exception of the Amiga's video stuff!)
and knowing that it's essentially a great machine - better than MS-DOS-based
systems - yet not being able to convince anyone. How's that for an incoherent
sentence? Anywho, Commodore is to blame, not Amiga owners. They're just
calling things as they see them. The Amiga *is* a nice piece of hardware, but
it's falling behind the times.
>The ones here at CWRU constantly scream about their blitters, etc.
When the Amiga was introduced, I bought one and was a fanatic. Try as I
might, peecee and mac owners (less so for mac owners) would not believe me
when I said the Amiga was a serious system.
Now, of course, PC hardware is cheaper and there's software like Linux. As a
result, I spent money on a new PC clone rather than getting my Amiga 2000
fixed.
>was a good machine in its time, as was my old Atari 400 with B-keyboard.
>Damn I hated that original template thing :)
Yeah, it was good for it's time. As for the Atari 400...at least it was
dishwasher-safe. :) :) :)
>Later
>
>--
>MaThiEu a. LeWis "ask me why and i'll die/and if you must go to work
>Thieves Like Us tomorrow/well, if i were you i wouldn't bother/for there
>mal11@po.cwru.edu are brighter sides to life/and I should know because I've
> seen them/but not very often/am I still ill?"
--Brian
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Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com