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- From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Complaints...Not enough manuals
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Paula_Lieberman.07wg@amicol.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:23:23 EDT
- Organization: Amiga Colony BBS
- Lines: 35
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- In a message dated Thu 15 Jan 93 22:40, Hamish.macdonald@bnr.ca (hamish Mac
- wrote:
- HM> Message-ID: <1993Jan14.192733.5246@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1993 12:25:50 GMT,
- >>>>> In message <-192719999@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>,
- >>>>> ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) wrote:
-
- andy> Yeah, Ok, many people will never use ARexx, but AmigaDOS?!?!?
-
- andy> And no, the manuals aren't available separately (yet) --and it's
- andy> v v annoying...
-
- HM> Commodore is getting rid of the CLI in AmigaDOS 4.0, and will use a
- HM> Workbench-only interface.
-
- HM> They are just getting you used to the idea.
-
- <glyph of vomiting coyote -- no I don't know -who- came up with that line,
- it -might- have been Judith Tarr, author of a number of fantasy books and
- stories, and a few science fiction stories, then again, it might have been
- someone else -- anyway, I picked up the term -- oops, it should be "<glyph
- of barfing coyote>" from somewhere on GEnie's Science Fiction Round Table>
-
- I -DESPISE- interfaces which are WIMP-only. To quote Norm Harmon, at a
- conference (I wasn't there at the particular session) on a different topic,
- "The fuckin' things DON'T WORK!"
-
- Some people like them, some people don't. For me, the fuckin[' things
- don't work that well. If my LIFE depended on it, I couldn't win at a
- pinball game without doing something like using a Big Magnet. Otherwise,
- "TILT"! PLEASE let those of use who are terminally coordination impaired
- KEEP the quantitative aspects of shells, etc. etc.!
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.992
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