[Coco] CoCo DICTATOR position Vacanty

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 09:43:44 AM Robert Layten did opine:

> YOu know, I'm still waiting to hear just what tbis fearless leader is
> proposing.  If he has the resources to produce,market,sell, develop
> software for, etc a brand new coco, I say let him!    I really believe
> that there would be a market for a family friendly computer that is
> affordable.   Windows takes huge amounts of resources, Linux is not
> for the beginner and Apple is quite expensive.
 
I would beg to differ, linux is for beginners provided they never used 
windows in the first place because that teaches all sorts of bad habits.

The only windows machine I ever owned is my laptop, which came with XP, and 
which I promptly shrank the 100Gb drive down to 20Gb for winders, and put 
Mandriva on the other 80GB.  The only thing I used the winders partition 
for was as a source of a driver for its wifi radio, and that turned out to 
be pretty dumb as the winders driver was as broken as the linux offerings.  
Now, the winderz driver is still broken, but the broadcom stuff in linux 
Just Works(TM).

I went from the coco to the amiga since we used the amiga very heavily in 
the broadcast business for much of a decade.  My first ever built x86 box 
got Red Hat 5.0 installed on it.  Currently running pclos, which just 
advised me there were 186 updates this morning.  The non functioning amiga 
I still have is one of the tv station's old A-4000/060's, and I still have 
that mega ST Atari I got at one of Ron's PA fests, but my real love is the 
coco yet, its sitting in the basement, live and I have a minicom terminal 
session connected to it from this box.  Its also running drivewire4.

> Ok, enough of my ranting.
> 
> On Monday, June 13, 2011, Aaron Banerjee <spam_proof at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Aaron,
> > 
> >  � Let's each appoint the other of us as dictator and overthrow each
> >  other.... � � � � � � � � � �- Aaron
> > 
> > On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I cast my vote in full support of both the naming and overthrowing of
> > a new coco Dictator. �Sounds like fun.
> > -Aaron

Yes, but usually, the overthrow of a dictator is very hard on his health & 
well being.  I can think of one or two that I would hasten the demise of, 
but they certainly aren't members of the coco community.

Cheers, gene
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