Re: Jawaid Bazyar On Vacation

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <3739d5$ed4@news.service.uci.edu>,
Jimmy Shaw <eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:

>Someone not too long ago pointed out that most, if not all, of the 
>"technical" edge that the GS had (i.e. the ensoniq chip) no longer 
>exists, and what remain (still to this date) so attractive about the 
>GS is that it is fun.  Seems to me that this is going away as well. 

The GS is still the most fun PC (that's not as in IBM) there is to hack on.
I'll agree that the attitude of the users (myself included) is getting pretty
disgusting.

>Moreover, the flamewars on c.s.apple2 aren't even all that good.  If 
>you really want to read some sarcastic, witty, caustic, and intelligent
>posts, I'd recommend comp.os.os2.advocacy, and read the latest debates
>between MS FUDders and OS/2 Visionaries (guess which side of the debate
>I'm on :)

c.s.amiga.advocacy is pretty good on occasion too, almost as much fun at times
as scanning sci.electronics for the keywords "smoke, flames, explosions,
electrocution" and the like =)

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