Thanks for your Email. My post was deliberate, it was intended to provoke debate because I wanted to find out who feels like any of the following:-
"the SAM is the machine and there can only be one SAM that is the creation of MGT ( amen )" "the SAM is a style, an OS that we could easily develop onto some hardware" "I would buy another SAM" "I would never buy a SAM again I just use it because it reminds me of times past" "I violently disagree with everything you said as it is not based around the Z80 or the custom chip" "Linux, why use anything else?" "I will only use free stuff" "Thats a good idea but you got this [x] wrong, that [y] wrong " "Thats a bad idea because of [x] and [y]" ( AKA the same ole same ole as in comp.sys.amiga.misc for the last 3-5 years ) Unfortunatly I also seem to have attracted the attention of the village nasty and whilst he does raise some points which - lets face it - were obvious up front and reactive to the deliberate hooks in my post he didnt really bring anything new to the debate and also did not read the majority of my post accurately. Why all the stuff about God I dont know. He reminds me of a more rational Timothy Rue ( look on Deja News for the ultra amusing experience ) from comp.sys.amiga.misc. I wonder if babelfish doesnt translate as well as is needed for constructive debate ;-) The way that the debate fizzled out so quickly sayes that overall "the SAM is nearly dead and the majority of people in the scene are hangers on who dont want to take it forward despite a minority who are productive and progressive" . This is against my hopes and my initial impressions. I wonder who in the mailing list would have complained bitterly had SamCo survived and brought out a partially backwards compatible system which broke "Tetris" or similar lame complaint. I will go back to programming bits and bobs for the SAM in my spare time for my own amusement, check out Sam Community and contribute away from this mailing list. Thanks to those of you who have been helpful to me, and commiserations to those that did the opposite - you will have to find your punchbag elsewhere. I learned a long time ago that mailing lists when you start to feel your hackles rising are something to walk away from or they can end up ruling your life and that is very sad. If people want to keep up contact, you know my email. All the best, Dave "naive but also somehow manages to be god(?!?) in the same post - how does he do it?" Pitcher. PS: Steve - you are too quiet on this mailing list
