XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: bruce#fanboy.net@127.0.0.1   
      
   In article <1193141675.444043.163610@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,   
    "Mr. Maddog"  wrote:   
      
   > All right, now I really gotta get this off my chest.   
   >   
   > Seriously, WTF is this Commodore crap being crossposted on not only a   
   > video game newsgroup but also on ATARI computer ones as well?   
      
   This is usenet, and if you don't know how to look at the headers to find   
   out which groups this is going to, you really need to learn how:   
      
   > Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,rec.games.video.classic   
      
   See that? rec.games.video.classic is not an "atari computer" group. It's   
   a classic console video gaming group, which is mostly about an era in   
   which Atari was on top, but is not by any stretch about Atari itself.   
   And certainly not Atari's computers. And in fact, it's Jack Tramiel's   
   attitude toward Atari's _console_ systems that we have a problem with.   
   He apparently detested console gaming, though he softened up a little,   
   eventually letting some consoles escape with poor support.   
      
   In fact, as far as computers went, I consider both the fuji and the   
   chickenhead 8-bits to be toy computers with abysmyally slow serial   
   interfaces to floppy drives, in contrast with Tandy and Apple, who both   
   had full-speed floppy drive interfaces. I wasn't very impressed with   
   their 16-bit systems either, though at least they had a 68000 inside.   
      
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