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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190817.22963@usl.edu>
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- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <8798@orbit.cts.com> <1992Dec22.055037.29390@usl.edu> <Bzns93.D6v@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:08:17 GMT
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- In article <Bzns93.D6v@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >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.
-
- Good for you. Really. If a half-meg of MSDOS was in ROM we'd fit a lot more
- onto a boot disk, too.
-
- Oh well. A computer adapts to the hardware.
-
- >
- >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).
-
- That's nice. Adaption to the hardware. Even though I'd like this better
- control over floppies, it isn't supra-important with harddrives... unless
- one HAS to boot fromfloppy (like we were talking about).
-
- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-