CompuServe Messages

Vic, Nick, Bob, Betty, Don, & Mike, I'll pass your message on to my son. I shouldn't, though, 'cause I did not expect him to use my name in the message he wrote. You see, I had nothing to do with the inquiry that seemed to come from me. I've never restricted my son from using my home office computer station in any way, but I will now <sigh>. James thought that since my name would automatically be attached to his message it would be best if he penned the message as if it were from me. Well, it wasn't. Still, I would not have known to disprove of it even if I had known the content. He and I share my Mac quite a bit, but I have never touched the keyboard of his Amiga. I am reasonably aware of the Amiga's merits, because James is quick to point out areas in which he thinks it outperforms the Mac. Vic, I was once an Apple II person, moving to the IBM PC soon after its debut. Macintosh stole me away from the clunky PC world in 1986, and I'm not likely to make any more platform moves until a main-stream platform significantly surpasses the talents of Macintosh. I lump the Amiga with the Atari and consider neither to be mainstream. They are, in my opinion, solutions for folks who can't or won't pay to go first class. One of the things I like about the Mac is the Mac community. I lively bunch, in my opinion. Perhaps the bad side to this is that every innovative piece of new software gets a lot of attention, which usually leads to my purchasing it. I now have so much software that I'm getting upgrade/update notices on an almost daily basis, sometimes two or more at a time. My point is that my interest in the Amiga is slight. I wish your chosen platform well, though, and hope it can pioneer at least one or two things that can be ported to the Mac. If you [continued in the reply]