From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: kev@evilcabal.org   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   On 11/22/2009 12:03 AM, The World was enlightened by Your Name's opinion    
   about...   
   > "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.  :-(   
   >    
   >    
      
   If you left, then there would be one less moron for Anybody to worry about.   
      
      
   kev   
      
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