From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: kev@evilcabal.org   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   On 11/21/2009 2:53 PM, The World was enlightened by Your Name's opinion    
   about...   
   > "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.   
   >    
   >    
      
   http://lowendmac.com/software/microsoft/word-for-macintosh.html   
      
   Microsoft Word, IBM PC, 1983.   
   Microsoft Word, Mac, 1985.   
      
   Yet in Your Name's alternate reality, that means Word originated on the    
   Mac...   
      
      
   kev   
      
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