Re: Linkdump No 117, or "Thoughts on Computer Snobbery"

Andreas writes, The Amiga turns 40 this week. I had an Amiga 500 as a kid, some time in the early 90s. And I remember being made fun of for having an Amiga, because PCs were supposedly so much cooler and better and whatnot. But the first time I visited a friend who had one of those amazing PCs and he proudly showed me his games with their EGA graphics colour palette and the PC speaker sounds I thought, are you kidding me? This is the thing you're going on and on about? Have you even seen an Amiga? I was truly underwhelmed by that. I had a similar experience in High School, except with the Mac, rather than an Amiga (I drooled over and literally dreamed about the Amiga's impossible 4,096 color graphics, but that's a different topic!) My Mac SE definitely didn't have more colors than the CGA displays that were popular at the time (I literally never saw an EGA display. Most everyone I knew went from CGA directly to VGA, as far as I know). It was mono, rather than four-color. But CGA's…