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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:36:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bzns93.D6v@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <8798@orbit.cts.com> <1992Dec22.055037.29390@usl.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.055037.29390@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- > ...or run text-based program from other floppy disks. Can the Amiga
- > boot off a floppy? Uh huh. Then what do the vast majority of
- > Amigans do? *Right*. They swap disks.
-
- Well, I fit the Manx C development kit, including an editor, and a term program
- onto a floppy that boots me up into Workbench. On my second drive I had the
- application and appropriate libraries.
-
- On a single-drive machine the best you could probably manage would be to use
- a word-processor or spreadsheet. You know, the things most DOS users do most
- of the time.
-
- Not to mention that the Amiga *manages* disks. Once you launch an app, you
- can pull out the floppy and it will request the volume you need by name when
- you need it. Much better than DOS, or even the Mac (where guessing which
- drive it's going to save a file on is a game of chance).
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi táΣnáΣáΣn?
- 'U`
- Tarjoilija, táΣmáΣ ateria eláΣáΣ vieláΣ.
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