From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in message   
   news:7aadnQNt_fx_gJXWnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > Graeme wrote:   
   > > On Nov 20, 12:04 am, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > >> The VIC-20 *was* "the best thing since warp drive". We had one which   
   was   
   > >> later upgraded to a C64, and then my brother bought an Amiga 500 ...   
   and   
   > >> then Commodore was destroyed by inept and incompetent management, so we   
   > >> moved to Apple Macs.   
   > >   
   > > Yeah, it was.  People forget how groundbreaking those systems were in   
   > > their day.   
   >   
   > Yep.  I had an Amiga 2000.  At the time, it was far ahead of either Mac   
   > or PC.   
   >   
   > But Commodore management wasn't what destroyed the Amiga (though that   
   > factor certainly didn't help).  It was doomed to fail, in the face of a   
   > flood of very cheap PC clones, some of which could be put together by   
   > hackers themselves (and hackers had been a main market of the Amiga).   
   >   
   > When Microsoft Windows, with the tons of applications for it, started   
   > appearing on all those cheap PC clones, the Amiga was doomed.   
      
   Untrue. The Apple ][ and Commodore's C64 had much more software than PC   
   clones at the time. The real reason Microsoft established such a hold is due   
   to the stupidity of "big business" who as usual went for the cheap option   
   and fell for Bill Gates con-man patter without actually knowing what they   
   were doing.   
      
      
      
   > The only reason Mac survives, is that it made its peace with Microsoft   
   > and runs Microsoft Office.   
      
   Untrue. Microsoft Word and Excel both originated on the Mac and were only   
   later made for the PC clones. Bill Gates knew (and still knows) the Mac is a   
   much better computer, that's why he continually tries, and fails, to copy   
   it. In *some* ways, Microsoft wouldn't exist today if it hadn't been for   
   Apple.   
      
      
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