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- From: monster@mbear.apana.org.au (Martin Ozolins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
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- References: <1992Dec21.230338.18835@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Dec22.153227.19928@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.153227.19928@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- > I disagree. Why is it, then, that Amiga programs *don't* have consistent
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- But you disagree on everything that is not OS/2 or Windows.
- You want ALL programs to look the same, how boring.
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- > user interfaces? IMHO, screens are useful on the Amiga for two reasons.
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- Pity that your biased opinion means ZERO to intelligent people
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- > First, they are a speed optimization, which isn't necesary on systems with
- > decent GUI performance. Second, some applications need to work at certain
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- That cancels out Unix X-Windows and Windows, very slow
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- > screen resolutions, and this wouldn't be the case if the Amiga had DIG.
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