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From: alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hooks and ladders
Message-ID: <23520001@hprmokg.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 89 20:54:53 GMT
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One thing that really impresses me with the Amiga is that Commodore
has published books that tell you everything you wanted to know about
the Amiga.  You'll get more "C" examples than you know what to do
with.  I don't think (could be wrong) that Apple has done this with
the Mac.

As for customizing your "desk"...  A friend with an Atari complained
about not being able to customize the desk accessories on the Amiga.
I have a neat program called "HandyIcons" and "EliteWB" that I use to
put my own menu bar on the Workbench screen (it uses the "debug" menu
of WB).  I can add anything I want to that menu.  I'm not sure how
many I can add, but it's around 20 programs.  

Until I get my 2 MB expansion (any day now!  :-) I don't spend too
much time in Workbench -- which is another great feature of the Amiga.
You aren't stuck to icons/windows if you don't want to be.  Even *if*
the Amiga wasn't as customizable as the Mac (which isn't true) the
fact that it multitasks would make up for that.

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   Al Harrington                        
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