Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Development ?? Message-ID: <4404@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Oct 89 14:12:50 GMT References: <23123@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 19 I haven't used a floppy based system yet that didn't munch disks. The Amiga is worse than most, because when you have an error you generally lose the whole track instead of just a sector. On the other hand, the current DiskSalv is very effective at recovering from this, and the hard disks are as reliable as any I've seen. More reliable than MS-DOS under DoubleDOS. As a development environment, I've only got a floppy system right now. It's better than any other floppy-based system I've used, but a hard disk is a high priority. Even with just floppies, though, it beats the pants off MS-DOS. UNIX remains, however, the premier general-purpose software-development work- bench. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor