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- From: dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:33:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.171030.21984@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >David Tiberio (dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: Wrong, the Atari 400 and the C64, with all their screen interrupts,
- >: can not display multiple screens like the Amiga can...
- >:
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- >No David, *you* are wrong. The Atari 400 had hardware very similar to Copper.
- >If a full multitasking OS were feasible on that machine, it would be trivial
- >to implement Amiga-like screens on it.
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- No Shekhy, *you* are wrong, unless you can name ONE Atari 400
- application that can move screens using interrupts.
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- >: an Atari ST can do a
- >: Boing! demo, but not like the Amiga can. You have obviously never used an
- >: Amiga...
- >:
- >
- >Ha. Even that same Atari 400 had a Boing demo that was almost as good as the
- >original Amiga one. And please stop telling me what I have and have not
- >used. I used an Amiga for three years in college.
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- Yet you don't know what the difference between a windowing Mac is
- and a windowing Amiga? You are like Marc Barrett, but Jerry Shekhy.
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- >| JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
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- Amiga Graphics Association BBS (516) 473-6351 24 HRS 14.4 v.32bis
- Thanks Gwen. Like I said, I had faith in #3. At least it answers the phone now.
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