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From: djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: 18 Jan 1995 18:11:37 GMT
Organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department
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In-reply-to: biwillia@crh0099.urh.uiuc.edu's message of 18 Jan 1995 07:17:04 GMT
> : o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans
>
> Oh...Am I? :-) I consider myself pretty mild. Basically, all
> I have to say to that is, the Linux guru can defend his operating system
> pretty well, and doesn't have to make up facts like Amiga Users. I mean,
> realisticly, I don't come storming into the newsgroup and claim that linux
> on a 486 is 20 times as fast as 10 MP sparc's (I know some Amiga users
> who would attempt this :)
I'm insulted here! :-) Really though, I have found non-Amiga
users to be just as biased and neurotic at times. For instance,
it's not at all unusual to casually mention that you use an
Amiga then have people suddenly say "oh, you're one of those
wacko's, why don't you get a life".
In reality, I've found the non-technical Amiga users to be
about the same as many non-technical DOS users - they both
repeat misinformation and misunderstandings.
Now if Linux were trivial to install, and had lots and lots
of non-technical applications and games and such; you'd see
the same sort of inaccurate hype being spread.
--
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
Caution! Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the
interleave operator, except under confusing circumstances!