#Light Humor
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Re: The death of CBM.
As we all sit and wait for the fat lady to sing, I offer a little light humor
to pass the time.
May we all bow our heads in silence and pray to the big computer gods in the
sky and ask ever so humbly for a savior to raise our beloved Amiga's up from
the ruins.
May we offer sacrifices of MS-DOS floppies to the pagan gods of Digital, HP,
and yes even Tandy so that they may exonerate us and deliver us from our
archenemy IBM.
May we chant chapter and verse in our missal around our holy circle of Toasters
and prepare ourselves for the great burden we must endure.
We shall raise our mouse to the heavens in hopes that the great wisdom of the
house of Multitasking will hear our voices from the darkness of this abyss and
guide us with the light of it's AGA windows.
We look to you oh great Guru of wisdom to tell us of our error!
May the children of Kickstart; Agnus, Denise, Paula, and Gary draw their SIMMS
and ride the Mother Board upon the waves of static RAM to engage and conquer
our archenemy! We shall fire our Derringer's at the power- full Pentium and
lay it to rest at the feet of the omnipotent 68040!
Altho the house of Amiga lay in ruins we shall not forsaken thee, for thou is
the greatest computer of all time! We shall prevail!
May the G-Force be with you.
With Pain & Sorrow;
-John
That (sniff, sniff) was the most inspirational message (sniff, `hoononk')
that I have ever heard <g>.
Randy
Traveling the $uper Information Highway
Sort of gets you right in the old hard drive. It brings a tear to my
keyboard. 🙂
Richard -> AutoPilot on the A1000
>May we offer sacrifices of MS-DOS floppies to the pagan gods of Digital,
>HP, and yes even Tandy so that they may exonerate us and deliver us
>from our archenemy IBM.
I know it was just a joke, but…
Sure, the IBM PC (and its "OS") was lame, but that was 1980. Look at
the other personal computers that were around in 1980.
I think that the only truly _evil_ act by IBM was the introduction of
the IBM PC/AT — a machine where they were clearly more interested
in compatability that performance. (Selling it with MS-DOS instead of
a new OS that took advantage of the 286's capabilities was a heinous
act.)
BUT, since then, have they really been an "archenemy?" It seems like
they keep trying to _truly_ advance the technology instead of sticking
with the festering standards.
They were willing to toss compability out the window when they
introduced Micro Channel. Regardless of what anyone might thing
about MCA, it was sure an improvement over what later became known as
"ISA." It was a real technical improvement, even if done for
marketing reasons.
And they've been trying to push OS/2. At least that's a "real" OS,
even if it's no fun.
And now it looks like they want to dump the x86 crap for a much more
modern CPU: The PowerPC. No more of that lame segmentation, and
plenty of general-purpose registers, like the 680×0 has.
If anything, IBM has probably been the most Amiga-like (in spirit)
of all the cloners. It's companies like Tandy, HP, and a dozen
other cloners that want everyone to keep using early-1980s-style
hardware and Microsloth Windoze…
— John