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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: File name of current task
Message-ID: <4096@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 22:37:20 GMT
References: <2045@leah.Albany.Edu> <623@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <7991@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <7991@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	Don't be.  The CLI was almost an afterthought (remember the CLI switch
>in preferences?)  Originally, you were supposed to run everything (more or
>less) from Workbench, which gives you a lock on the directory you were loaded
>from.

Thank God for small favors!!  What convinced me to buy the Amiga the same day
I saw it in a store was for a large part the CLI.  I would not buy a Mac
because it forced everything to be done via windows (and at that time,
programmer tools were very clumsy to use through the windows or they were
non-existant.)

"You mean you can use this computer with the ease of a Macintosh and yet
program it the same way I do at work on the VAX.  All this, multitasking,
powerful graphics, and sound.  Its only $2,500 for what I need, not $5,000 that
I saved up.  I'll be back tonight to get one." -- Me, at computer store.
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---------- Lawrence W. Esker ----------  Modern Amish: Thou shalt not need any
                                         computer that is not IBM compatible.
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