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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and some history lessons
Message-ID: <1835@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 23:12:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1835
Posted: Mon Jun  1 23:12:01 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:02:19 EDT
References: <943@cooper.UUCP> <159@tahoma.ARPA> <3708@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <879@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> <1710@ihwpt.ATT.COM> <749@omepd>
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Summary: Hans *you* are the waste our time

In article <749@omepd> hah@isum.UUCP (Hans Hansen) writes:
>In article <1710@ihwpt.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) writes:
>>In article <879@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>, mu106sbn@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Stephen Hartford) writes:
>>> Since the Atari ST and the Amiga have been released,
>>> I've purchased both.
>>
>> [Some totally absurd nonsense by Mike Knudson to a good comparison of 3
>>  computers by Stephen Hartford.]

     Hans, it's very easy to make a great generalization
like this when it suits your purpose.  What exactly was
"totally absurd nonsense" in what Mike wrote?  Having
bought an ST and had a fair bit of contact lately with
the Amiga and owned a CoCo3 I can say that what Mike
said was essentially correct.  While the OS's of the
Amiga and ST have had massive bugs, which make up the
bulk of the postings in the net postings regarding those
machines, the OS-9 Level II port on the CoCo is amazingly
bug-free.  As Mike *correctly* noted, the biggest *alleged*
bugs found on the OS-9 port boiled down to vague or
misleading points of documentation.  That and problems
arising from mixing old version hardware with new version
hardware.  If you have doubts of this, I have printed
transcripts of almost all the postings regarding the
Level II and if you care to pay for photocopies and my
time ($100.00/hr.) I'll send them to you.

     I have not kept transcripts of the "column feet" of
bug reports regarding TOS/GEM and AmigaDOS/Intuition.

     Mike also pointed out quite correctly, that if you
want to compare *discount* prices of Amiga and ST equipment
then you should compare *discount* prices of CoCo3 equipment
which are proportionally lower than the list prices that
Stephen pointed at.

     Stephen has shown that he wasn't totally conversant
with the CoCo situation, but you, you've shown utterly
*incredible* ignorance.  Anyone who has paid reasonable
attention to the postings of the 'm6809', 'amiga' and 'atari.st'
newsgroups know darned well that Mike was right on these
points.  It's almost beyond debate.  As such you didn't
even bother to *try* to allege any factual basis for your
posting.  If you clearly don't know what you're talking about,
why bother to post *anything*?  Does it make you feel good?

     Please don't post anymore unless you have something
to say worth reading.

>>PS: I don't want to start religious wars over, but this
>>grenade landed in my newsgroup, so I just pulled the pin
>>and tossed it back....
>>-- 


...

>Mike,  while you found it necessary to defend the honor of your PET computer.
>Your total ignorance of the other computers that you mention is a massive
>miss use of net bandwidth.  I am not saying don't post, just have your facts

     As noted before, Mike easily showed more knowledge
about the computers mentioned than you.

>straight before you start typing.

     Hans, practice what you preach, and don't even bother to
post.  You didn't even allege any facts to have straight--totally
worthless posting.

>Please E-Mail all replies to hah@intelos

     No, I think it's worth it for people to find
out what a stupid thing you have posted.  Hopefully
your employers don't find your day to day work as
utterly worthless as your posting on this topic was.



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