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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Programming
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- References: <1e4l57INNndp@ub.d.umn.edu> <mwm.2ndl@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <1e5rq2INNa7e@ub.d.umn.edu> <Bxs1D7.A3o@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov16.101823.26437@ugle.unit.no>
- X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
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- Message-ID: <mwm.2o29@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:44:11 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <1992Nov16.101823.26437@ugle.unit.no>, eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) wrote:
- > In article <Bxs1D7.A3o@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, sjjohnst@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Stephen Johnston) writes:
- > fine. Compare these:
- > ...
- >
- > Object Load 'sprite'
- >
- > Sprite 1,sprite
- > sprite on
-
- To the following mouse actions:
-
- [grab sprite object, move it to where you need it turned on, drop it]
-
- > NOW do you see why AMOS is good?
-
- Not particularly.
-
- > B'sides, you can't upgrade to a new Unix system w/o recompiling your programs...
-
- Um, as someone who's ugpraded Unix systems starting as early as v6, and
- ending as late as 4.3BSD, you *can* upgrade your Unix systems w/o
- recompiling your programs. Nuts - I've upgraded both the hardware and
- OS at the same time, and it works fine. Much better than doing so with
- AmigaDOS, largely because Unix doesn't let people get away with the
- kind of things AMOS does.
-
- > Naah. That's why AMOS doesn't use Intuition by default... Read the thread...
- > If you use libcalls from AMOS, you use the offsets directly, so no includes are
- > needed.
-
- Ah, yes, let's do everything we can to make sure our application
- doesn't upgrade to a new OS.
-
- <mike
-