🚀 go-pugleaf

Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
[...]
: People who own just PCs have far better things to do with their
: time and computers than come here and try to evangalize Atari
: owners...
Really...

: They do things like Desktop Publishing, Word Processing, Graphics
: and Music, Business Applications, and even Games, on their PCs...

WOW! I've never done that on my crappy ST!

: If you read any of the PC newsgroups, you find people who are
: busily and happily using their computers, instead of fighting
: over the remains of a dead software company, or trying their
: best to defend the bizzare business practices of the company that
: manufactures their computer.  (Or discussing how great it will
: be.. someday.. when the new  _________ computer is finally
: released... someday... )

Well, we too would be happily using our computers if some people would
not keep on whining all the time about the policy of Atari Corp. and
how much better the PC market is. I'm certain that most c.s.a.st readers
are quite fed up with that discussion, and would appreciate it if it
ended as soon as possible. This is comp.sys.atari.st, not misc.talk.atari_corp,
or comp.sys.atari.st.advocacy. Why can't people get back to posting
informative things, not just feeding the never-ending thread?

: PC owners don't much care about the Atari world.. if they even
: know it exists...

Of course. Then, either
1) You're a PC owner, don't care much about the Atari world, but keep
   whining here in comp.sys.atari.st, or
2) You're NOT a PC owner, but still keep on whining instead of writing
   something useful here.

: It's Atari owners who exist in more than just the "Atari ghetto"
: who seem to rub the "Atari religious" the wrong way...

I don't know what you expected when you wrote more or less how stupid
we all were that we haven't thrown our Ataris away and gone to the PC
instead, but it seems quite natural that people who own a computer
don't want to be offended like that just because they see no reason to
buy a new computer. Sure, some people may just be fanatics, but I
personally see absolutely no reason to buy a PC if the ST does what
I need! I don't have any psychological problems with knowing that 
some other people use computers that are 10x faster than my Mega STe
and get more (pirated) new games per day than are released for the ST
in a year...

: "The Truth" is not welcome here...

Ermm... Do you really think this newsgroup was created to find out
"The Truth" (whatever you mean), and not eg. for discussing what's
going on in the ST world? (New program releases, bugs in programs,
programming ideas, help requests etc.)

: BobR

-MY