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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: 12 Feb 96 15:02:35 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin) writes:
- >The Amiga in it's current form has little left going for it, unless you
- >count the ability to drag screens, which is only nice to impress the
- >neighbours IMO.
-
- I like to think there's a lot more to it than that. Have you ever
- written a non-trivial program for Windows? The C interface is worse
- than Gadtools.
-
- >The one thing that the Amiga has that no other OS has is it's leanness.
- >MUI is about, what, 2 times the size of the entire OS?
-
- MUI is smaller than Kickstart alone, and I dare anyone to have fun
- with an Amiga which only has Kickstart installed. AmigaOS isn't big.
- But saying it's only half the size of MUI is rediculous.
-
- >. Branko Collin . | , .
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