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- Date: 2 Oct 91 15:10:17 GMT
- From: barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: CPU's in flames
- Summary: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's BLAZEMONGER!
- Keywords: metope triglyph Doric frieze
-
- >Re: Valid Hardware Comparisons?
- >Re: Mac vs Amiga (was Re: Mac vs. Amiga)
- >Re: Mac vs. NeXT vs. 486 (was Re: Please STOP IT!!)
- >Re: 486 vs. OS/2 (was Re: No more comparisons, PLEASE!!!)
- >Re: Mac vs. Mac vs. Amiga vs. Mac (was Re: How do I make a KILL file?)
- >Re: Amiga vs. Godzilla (was Re: Good reptile softwrae?)
-
- Welcome back, friends, for another episode of...
-
- AS THE CPU BURNS
-
- the Amiga flamer community's favorite ongoing soap opera!
-
- But first, a word from our sponsor... heh heh...
-
- "AS THE CPU BURNS" is brought to you by BLAZEMONGER, INCORPORATED:
- makers of fine games for self-destructive personalities. Try BLAZEMONGER
- today! Then become HOPELESSLY ADDICTED, quit your JOB, and spend thousands
- of dollars on SURGERY to have your EYEBALLS removed from the screen!!
-
- Now, back to the story!
-
- As you remember from last week, the Amiga was a total piece of crap
- because it has no colors, blurry video, flakey hardware, buggy software, and
- an incurable case of "Athlete's Mouse." In a last-ditch attempt to make the
- Amiga more visible, Commodore Marketing dug a big hole in the ground, filled
- it with mud, and jumped in. Critics called this a "bold move forward" and
- were "cautiously optimistic" about the results.
-
- Meanwhile, in a town not far away, the Mac's System 7 was voted
- "Best Operating System" by the Left-Handed Myopic High School Custodial
- Society of Chickenmilk, Wisconsin. Simultaneously, Steve Jobs announced
- that the next NeXT computer will have a '486 processor and a new I/O system
- made almost entirely of processed lunch meat.
-
- Also meanwhile, in a surprise move, IBM and Union Carbide teamed up
- to create a new computer medium made entirely of chemical gases, eliminating
- the need for disks and tapes. This "Vaporware" (TM) reportedly will be
- ready to ship "any day now."
-
- But some questions have STILL been left unanswered. What's the best
- computer to buy? What's the best computer to RENT? What's the best
- computer to grind up and use as OINTMENT on a nasty burn? Will the Amiga
- ever catch up? Does the Amiga taste good with ketchup? How many NeXT's
- does it take to screw in a lightbulb? How many Macs does it take to screw
- up an operating system? Are 24-bit graphics on the horizon, or will they be
- replaced by a hefty bonk on the head? Does the previous sentence have ANY
- MEANING AT ALL?? Why don't we get World Peace as a free prize inside our
- breakfast cereal? Is BLAZEMONGER *fast*???!?!?? GET REAL!! BLAZEMONGER is
- SO AMAZINGLY, BLINDINGLY, ASTOUNDINGLY LIGHTNING-FAST THAT... that...
- hey!! Tell our "sponsors" to keep their propaganda in their OWN POSTINGS!
- [Sorry about that! - B. Inc.]
-
- And what of the Toaster? Does it SUCK? Should the president of
- NewTek be dipped in boiling pig fat and thrown into a pit of cobras? Will he
- find Irving Gould sitting next to him????
-
- Tune in tomorrow (and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and
- tomorrow, ...) to hear the same arguments over and OVER and OVER AND OVER
- again!!!!!!!
-
- Dan
-
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- | Dan Barrett -- Grad student, Department of Computer & Information Science |
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- Copyright 1991 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed, but may not be included in any
- publication without the written permission of the author.
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