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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:06:45 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <1992Dec22.144719.29087@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec22.170500.21893@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.170500.21893@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >David Tiberio (dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
- >: And as far as apps talking to each other, hell when did the Mac
- >: introduce it's app ports? ARexx and Rexx have been around for years, and
- >: ports have always been there.
-
- >The Mac has had a useful clipboard since day one.
-
- Where does this come from? First, Rexx is obviously much more than a
- clipboard. Second, the Amiga has ALWAYS had an extremely powerful
- clipboard. Support for 256 separate units (the standard unit being
- #0), any type of data (IFF file support), and as of 2.0, extremely
- easy ways of making use of that information.
-
- This was almost as cool as Peter da Silva telling you that in order to
- make any use of extended memory on a DOS machine you had to 1) install
- another OS, 2) use it as swap space, or 3) as a ramdisk, and you
- telling him that Windows and OS/2 used extended memory as real memory
- (which, if you hadn't figured out, falls under #1...)
-
- Greg
-
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