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But your reverance for Amiga is a bit odd. I would expect that kind of fervor from a fan of Apple. At least that was demonstrably a decent product. If Jobs hadn't been such a kook, that might have been the competetion everybody wanted it to be for Microsoft. But Amiga?
Geo, you sound like you've never used an Amiga, and definitely haven't dealt with many Amiga fans before.
My first home computer was an Amiga 500, which I purchased used around '89 or so. I was still using it occaisionally until a chip blew about a month ago, and there were several areas where it outperformed the Windows machine I bought new in '98. The Amiga was technically superior to anything in its price range in its early years of release, but some of its idiotic corporate owners actively discouraged further development, in favor of lining their own pockets instead.
The Amiga inspired an almost religious devotion in many of the people who owned one; "Amigoids" can outdo Mac lovers in fanaticism anytime. This is part of why so many of ex-Amiga owners are so bitter about its fall, which shows in the flamewars that break out on Slashdot whenever somebody Posts an Amiga related news item. This passionate fan base is the main reason there's anything left of Amiga to argue about.
BTW, you're the first person I've ever seen accuse Microsoft of having "trained, courteous support", and I don't see many people claim that they "treat the customer right", either. Whether they've provided "value added products" is highly subjective.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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