Re: worst RPG ever seen?

Amen to that.  Plug-and-Play was simply called 'Auto-config', multi-tasking
was built-in,  mouse support standard, FULL(4096) color, stereo sound, and a
full MEGABYTE of RAM built in standard -- all for around $1300 back in
1988!!  I bought one for school, because at that time, for the same monies,
I could get a PC, monochrome, no sound (except 'beep'), no mouse, no
multi-tasking, no color, 640k of ram, and I couldn't afford the printer
because it was more money.  And they could run a PC on a card!  or a Mac on
a card!  Or both!!  The OS rarely crashed, unless you really tweaked it
(remember the guru meditation errors!?!?).  Software would crash itself
sometimes, but this didn't bring down the entire system with it.  It was
usually because the software was written poorly.  Which was usually because
the Amiga was marketed very poorly.  IBM could have done a better job ;-)

On 3/1/06, Christen, Duane J. <dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm going to get smacked down for this:
> The Amiga was the most "stable" and capable pc of its day, and after more
> than a decade of idle (read non-existant) development can still do things
> that the newest wintel machine can't even dream of...
> Sort of reminds me of the #1 computer on my two entry list of the
> computers
> ever
>
> Duane Christen
>
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> Subject: Re: worst RPG ever seen?
>
>
> Dunno what this turn of the thread has to do with bad RPG,
> but . . .
>
> Back when I was a University student, (CSU Long Beach, BS
> in Computer Science, Class of 1985), I worked a couple of
> summer jobs with my old high school, first as acting A/V
> technician, then (the following summer, when the librarian
> had convinced the district to fund a permanent A/V
> technician) as the tech's assistant. Then, straight out of
> college, I worked a couple of temporary assignments with
> the Los Angeles Unified School District, first as a
> maintenance worker, then as a computer repair technician.
> So I've been a civil servant. It can be very rewarding,
> but make no mistake, civil servants are expected to
> *work,* and they're often expected to work miracles with
> chewing gum and bailing wire.
>
> Having trouble finding work as a programmer without
> benefit of friends or relatives in the business, I took a
> part-time job at the ice rink where I was taking figure
> skating classes. Shortly after that, I finally landed a
> programmer/tech writer/typesetter job with a small company
> called Oxxi, a publisher of software for the Commodore
> Amiga (!).
>
> I left Oxxi exactly two years after I was hired, because
> the job stress was affecting my health: I was never
> recognized for anything I accomplished, and was constantly
> blamed for other people's hidden flaws. On the other hand,
> I kept the ice rink job, even though it was barely above
> minimum wage, because there, it was as if I could do no
> wrong. Likewise, about the time I was contemplating
> leaving Oxxi, my best friend started a video production
> business, specializing in figure skating competitions, and
> he quickly tapped me to work with him.
>
> Four years, two and a half months after I left Oxxi, I
> began working for what is now Touchtone Corporation,
> teaching myself MI, CL, and RPG, and quickly transforming
> QuestView from dying product to continually improving
> flagship. I still kept the ice rink job, until I quit,
> only a few months shy of a decade with the company, over a
> dispute with the worst figure skating coach who ever drew
> breath; that particular ice rink has since been torn down.
> And I still work the occasional video crew at skating
> competitions.
>
> I still work for Touchtone because this job is everything
> Oxxi wasn't. I get to work on a stable platform, with
> management that is scrupulously honest and magnanimously
> generous, and if I get yelled at, it's for something I
> actually did (or neglected to do).
>
> --
> JHHL
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