Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Tue Apr 23 15:19:25 2002

> > > I find it interesting that the gaming market is one of the
> > > main defining markets for current PC hardware...the very market that
> > > PC users used to scorn. I've always thought it was stigma that was
> > > unfairly applied to the Amiga, even if it was better at it than the
> > > PC's of the same time period.
> >
> > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better...
> >
>
> The Amiga was doing "desktop publishing" *before* the term
> was coined!

In what year do you place this revisionist history? People were
casually using the term "Desktop Publishing" in 1985, the year
the Commodore Amiga A1000 was launched...

Regards,
-dq
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 15:19:25 BST