That brings back some memories. I remember saying a lot of silly things on comp.sys.amiga :-). For me the most interesting was the whole "whole machine games" debate where I found myself alternating sides. The question was could a multi-tasking machine run a quality video game and at the same time provide a credible 'computer' user experience. This came up on the Amiga because you could sometimes 'pull down' the screen with the game on it, and often get to the Desktop on the screen behind it.
People argued long into the night that the only way to get decent games was to run 'on the metal' and the other side claimed it could be done while behaving nicely. These days the question is moot of course[1]. But that you could have the debate was wonderful back in 1986 and it didn't surface on the PC until easily 10 years later.
[1] These days of course you can run full up command and conquer in a VM running Win98 if you want with DirectX 8 as an example, while running a nice Linux desktop.
People argued long into the night that the only way to get decent games was to run 'on the metal' and the other side claimed it could be done while behaving nicely. These days the question is moot of course[1]. But that you could have the debate was wonderful back in 1986 and it didn't surface on the PC until easily 10 years later.
[1] These days of course you can run full up command and conquer in a VM running Win98 if you want with DirectX 8 as an example, while running a nice Linux desktop.