home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nyx.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail
- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 14:25:40 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
- Distribution: -
- Message-ID: <4jhkgk$fus@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk> <1996Mar16.112658.53401@cobra.uni.edu> <4irb5u$4cg@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1996Mar27.105857.53625@cobra.uni.edu> <DozGB0.8vI@bton.ac.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx.nyx.net
- X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)
-
- tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie) writes:
-
- >PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <4irb5u$4cg@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) writes:
- >: > sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (NAME) writes:
- >: > Yo, Sinclair. What about a decent OS, with features like Commodities,
- >: > Datatypes, real multitasking, Arexx, Non-isometric Icons (Yes I WANT that),
- >: > Run-time patching of the OS, REAL drive names, assigns, unlimted tasks and
- >: > windows running/opened (only limited by MEMORY), Draggable screens, Locking
- >: > FileSystem, Filesystem Notification, a standard install program, Changable
- >: > Media (VOLUME NAMES!).....
-
- 1. Commodities = Mac extensions.
- 2. Real multitasking = cooperative multitasking is just as "real" as
- preemptive
- 3. Run-time patching of the OS - it can be done just not many people do it.
- 4. Macs have had real drive names since the first hard drives came out
- for the Mac
- 5. Assigns -You can get most of the same functionality through aliases.
- 6. Unlimited tasks and windows running/opened limited by memory - I'm not
- limited by memory only hard drive space (virtual memory)
- 7. Draggable screens - limited placement compared to window placement.
- 8. Locking Filesystems - Yep
- 9. A standard install program - There is a standard installer but the
- installer software is not that complicated.
- 10. Changeable media - yep
-
-
- >: Yo, Harold..What about useful everyday apps that the market demands? Or is it
- >: just a shareware/PD platform?
-
- >There ae plenty of useful everyday apps that the market demands. Name some!
- >The real thing is that if there isn't something to suit your need commercially
- >there damn well is one to get shareware. Don't go thinking that shareware is
- >a bad thing. Maybe on the Macs - there ae some pretty dire stuff out there
- >for the Macs. The shareware on the Amiga *IS* commercial quality in many
- >cases - Why? Because the Amiga attracts talented people!
-
- Shareware Amga programs to match Netscape,, PageMill, Hypercard,
- CodeWarrior, Quark Xpres?
-