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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Insider information turned INSIDE OUT!! (was re: BLAZEBOOGER)
- Date: 28 Aug 1993 15:47:42 GMT
- Keywords: whopper city
-
- The whole Amiga Internet community is talking about the mysterious
- "CBM Insider" discussion that happened last week on Genie. Were DeepThought
- and DeepModem really CBM insiders? Was the information true? Is Commodore
- really going to quit the computer business, retire to sunny Iowa, and herd
- goats???
-
- As a service to Amigans everywhere, I have volunteered to clear
- up the confusion. Thanks to BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED's incredible contacts,
- I managed to find two MORE Commodore insiders to answer our questions.
- Last night on IRC, in the "Amiga-Wombat" channel, the two insiders joined
- an eager and bloodthirsty electronic crowd and gave us the real truth.
-
- Here is a transcript of last night's session. For reasons of
- anonymity, the two "insiders" used the nicknames DEEPTHROAT and DEEPDOODOO.
- Special thanks to the IRC gods for extending the length of nicknames to 10
- characters so our insider friends could join us last night.
-
- =================== transcript begins here ===========================
-
- <BLAZEMONG> Good evening, and BLAZE ON, d00dz!! We are privileged
- to have here tonight the famous C= insiders, DEEPTHROAT and DEEPDOODOO.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Howdy all!
- <DEEPDOODOO> Hi.
- <BLAZEMONG> Thanks very much for joining us. (Folks, if you have questions
- for the dynamic duo here, /msg me, and I'll put you in the queue.)
- <BLAZEMONG> I'll ask the first question, I guess. What do you think
- of the insider conference that happened on Genie? Was it real?
- <DEEPDOODOO> No, definitely not. Those guys were fakes.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Absolutely real. Every word they spoke was truth.
- <DEEPDOODOO> DT, you are full of shit.
- <DEEPTHROAT> What?!? DD, get real! It was the gospel from West Chester
- itself!!
- *** Action: DEEPTHROAT kicks DEEPDOODOO in the groin
- *** Action: DEEPDOODOO punches DEEPTHROAT in the snout
- <BLAZEMONG> Hey, HEY!! None of that. Save it for later.
- <mama> No fighting, guys!
- <Cryo> This is great!!!
- <Radix> Go get him (her?), DT!!!
- *** Action: mykes yawns
- <scotte> What the heck?!?
- *** Action: DEEPTHROAT whips out a laser and blasts off DEEPDOODOO's lips!
- <pjotr> You Americans...
- *** Action: cwolf munches popcorn
- <Aikido> I am SO embarrassed...
- *** Action: DEEPDOODOO sits on DEEPTHROAT's face and lays a smelly one...
- <BLAZEMONG> DEEPsters, PLEASE knock it off. You are in public.
- <cyclone> Commodore is obviously doomed.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Sorry, BLAZE. I don't know what came over me.
- <mykes> Can we please get on with the questions?
- <DEEPDOODOO> BLAZE: Sorry. I'll behave now. As long as DT does.
- <BLAZEMONG> OK, back to reality (virtual) here. Cryo, you are first in
- the queue.
- <Cryo> Is it true that the AAA chipset is dead?
- <DEEPTHROAT> Well, yes and no. It's still being developed, but it's not
- what people are expecting.
- <DEEPTHROAT> For example, AAA will have all the amazing graphics modes
- people have heard about. But due to a very strange set of political and
- engineering circumstances, the only Amiga that will be able to use AAA
- is the A1000.
- <Cryo> You're kidding.
- <DEEPDOODOO> No, DT is right. All those loyal A1000 owners who held onto
- their machines are going to be VERY happy campers.
- <Cryo> Holy sh*t...!!
- <BLAZEMONG> Next up in the queue is mykes... go ahead.
- <IGould> My question is whether the DEEP blabbermouths want their jobs or
- not.
- <BLAZEMONG> IGould: please wait your turn.
- *** IGould has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by BLAZEMONG
- *** IGould has joined channel #Amiga-Wombat
- <BLAZEMONG> The queue now is: mykes Radix cyclone Aikido mama harv
- <mykes> As a long-time Amigan and stockholder, I'd like to know whether
- Mehdi Ali really wears pink, women's underwear with little bunny rabbits
- on it.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Dunno.
- <DEEPDOODOO> It's light blue. Only the rabbits are pink.
- <DEEPDOODOO> There will be a photo in the 1993 fiscal report.
- <Aikido> Now I'm *really* embarrassed...
- <Radix> BLAZE: My turn?
- <BLAZEMONG> Radix: go ahead
- <Radix> What's happening with CD32? Will it be just a big game machine?
- Will CD32-compatible drives be available for other Amigas?
- <DEEPDOODOO> Yes, CD32 will have lots of games avaliable for it. Will
- developers embrace it as a real computer too? Hard to say.
- <DEEPTHROAT> I've heard that Utilities Unlimited (Emplant makers) will
- be coming out with a hardware device that turns the CD-ROM into a writable
- device.
- <Radix> DT: You're kidding, right?
- <DEEPTHROAT> Radix: No joke. Unfortunately, it's a write-only device.
- No reading. Great for backups... if you never need to do a restore.
- <DEEPDOODOO> I've heard that too.
- <DEEPDOODOO> Concerning drives for other Amigas, once again, it will
- probably be only for the Amiga 1000. Upper management realy likes that old
- box.
- <Radix> Wow.
- <BLAZEMONG> cyclone? your turn.
- <cyclone> In the 1992 annual report, page 21, it says that "The resulting
- adjustments are charged or credited directly to cumulative translation
- adjustment in the shareholders' equity section of the consolidated balance
- sheets."
- <cyclone> Do you think that if Commodore had not made this statement, then
- today they would be a world leader in multimedia?
- *** cyclone has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by BLAZEMONG
- <mykes> heh heh
- <BLAZEMONG> Aikido, you're on.
- *** cyclone has joined channel #Amiga-Wombat
- <Aikido> I just want to express my doubts that DEEPDOODOO and DEEPTHROAT
- are C= insiders. What proof do we have that they are genuine?
- <BLAZEMONG> Hmmm... good point.
- <DEEPDOODOO> Well, Aikido, I *did* know Ali's underwear.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Don't worry, Aik. We are real. Not like those fakers on
- Genie the other day.
- <DEEPDOODOO> DT: Hey! They were REAL!!!
- <DEEPTHROAT> Oh, BITE me, DD!! They were NOT!
- *** Action: DEEPDOODOO bites DEEPTHROAT on the nose
- *** Action: DEEPTHROAT snips off DEEPDOODOO's nipples with a dull scissors
- <BLAZEMONG> Oh no, not this again...
- <harv> More! More!
- *** Action: scotte likes blood
- <Cryo> sheesh...
- <cyclone> Commodore is *definitely* doomed.
- <pjotr> cwolf: pass the popcorn!
- <cwolf> munch munch
- <Aikido> ugh... a dull scissors. I hurt just thinking about it.
- *** Action: DEEPDOODOO feeds DEEPTHROAT to rabid beavers
- *** Action: DEEPTHROAT spikes DEEPDOODOO's drink with cyanide
- <BLAZEMONG> HEY!!! ENOUGH!!!
- <mama> BLAZEMONG: Please don't yell.
- *** Action: DEEPTHROAT calms down.
- *** Action: DEEPDOODOO has had enough violence... for now.
- <Aikido> DEEP: OK, I am convinced that you are real. Either that, or I'm
- watching reruns of "The Three Stooges."
- <BLAZEMONG> OK, next question is from... mama?? I didn't know that a "bot"
- could ask questions. Pjotr, I am impressed with your creation!
- <mama> I would like to know if C= will be incorporating more Artificial
- Intelligence into AmigaDOS.
- <pjotr> Thanks, BLAZE!
- <DEEPTHROAT> AI? Definitely. The next generation of printer drivers will
- be able to detect what kind of printer you are using automatically. And
- we're teaching the narrator.device to sing.
- <DEEPDOODOO> Localization is getting more intelligent too. Soon, the
- Amiga will be able to understand double-clicks in 157 different languages!
- <mama> Wow!
- <BLAZEMONG> harv, go ahead...
- <harv> Thanks, BLAZE. I'd like to know the truth behind the comments that
- DEEPMODEM and DEEPTHOUGHT made on Genie -- is C= really in it just for
- the money? Don't they care about their customers and high-end machines?
- <IGould> heh heh
- <DEEPDOODOO> You have to understand that C= is full of different people
- with different ideas about how the company should be run. The hardware
- folks want to make high-end machines. The software folks want to add
- memory protection and other features. The marketing folks
- <DEEPDOODOO> want to make big bucks. And upper management wants...
- *** DEEPDOODOO has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- <BLAZEMONG> Hey!!! What is this?
- <mykes> What the hell?
- <IGould> I think has gone on long enough.
- <DEEPTHROAT> Hey!
- *** DEEPTHROAT has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** mykes has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- <harv> What is going ON? They were in the middle of my question!!!
- *** harv has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- <mama> This is NOT nice.
- *** mama has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** pjotr has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** Cryo has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** scotte has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** Action: IGould is the fastest draw in the west
- *** cwolf has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- *** Aikido has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- <BLAZEMONG> Why is my /kill command suddenly not working???
- <cyclone> IGould: Buy you a drink?
- <IGould> cyclone: Ummm.... sure, why not?
- *** BLAZEMONG has been kicked off channel #Amiga-Wombat by IGould
- ??
- NO CARRIER
-
- =================== end of transcript ===========================
-
- Followups are to c.s.a.advocacy!
-
- Dan
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