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- From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
- Subject: Re: Amiga OS weaknesses and strengths
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:31:49 GMT
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- In article <C0BJCq.MK9@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
- (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
-
- > My beef with AmigaOS as a whole is that it seems to be crafted oppositely
- >to the MacOS. The Mac OS is not very pretty under the surface, but is VERY
- >elegant on the surface. The Mac OS on the surface has lots and lots of
- >niceties, big and small. AmigaOS is more elegant under the surface, but is
- >almost completely devoid of niceties on the surface.
-
- > Some of the problems could be solved with only minor modifications to
- >the Amiga OS.
-
- This reminds me of that bumper sticker: "I may be fat, but
- you're ugly, and I can diet." At least the Amiga OS can be easily
- improved. It'll be a while before the Mac gets nice things like
- pre-emptive multitasking, whatever Apple's R&D budget may be.
-
- > But, all in all, Commodore needs to pay *MUCH* more atrention to the
- >surface details. As the Macintosh has shown, what's under the surface does
- >not matter as much if the outside looks really good.
-
- A sad but true fact of marketing. But it doesn't even have to
- look that good; look at all those IBM PCs and clones out there. :-(
-
- Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
- "It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture." -- Leonard Cohen
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