CompuServe Messages

Yeah, if you're a user, you can buy an IBM and have a prepackaged solution to your problems, and the odds are high that the package will include or require an IBM. That doesn't make it good. And Henry, my car can do some really nice things that the AMiga can't or doesn't currently do… it has a computer running some of it, too… so what? If I _have_ to go to the store, I buy a car, not a computer. If I have to do real estate, I buy a "box" that does real estate. If I want a computer that is somewhere near state of the art, technically sophisticated (as opposed to complicated and constipated like an IBM), can do fairly nice graphics at reasonable speeds, good sound internally, midi, cad, telecom, multitasking, windowing, cli'ing, then there's only one choice left. And we havn't even got into the details. TO quote from Gov. Tarkin: "Your sad devotion to that ancient (force) is (paraphased) useless" Henry, the ST is a minimal desing. The IBM is WORSE than junk. The ONLY computer out there that even approaches the Amiga is the Big MAC machine with the 020 in it. You talk about progress, Henry.. then you pump up the IBM machines. You're doing everyone who hears you and believes that drivel a MAJOR disservice. Sure, there are IBM solutions. but we (you, everyone) should be working to get AWAY from that technological pile of bear skins and stone axes. IBM! <turning away in disgust> –Ben–