From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: your.name@isp.com   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "kev"  wrote in message   
   news:he9rtc.3bk.1@news.evilcabal.org...   
   > 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...   
      
   So I got Word wrong, so sue me. Geez, the Internet is so full of obnoxious   
   morons.  :-(   
      
      
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