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From: nfs1675@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Michael Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: questions
Summary: Some answers
Keywords: new user
Message-ID: <2024@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 6 Apr 90 13:42:05 GMT
References: <10861@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <10861@wpi.wpi.edu>, jstorey@wpi.wpi.edu (John R Storey) writes:
> 
> 	Oops - forgot two questions:
> 
> 	1)	Word proceesors.  Being a college student, I often
> 		have to write reports.  I have seen ProWrite for the
> 		Amiga and was suitably impressed, but it would
> 

	Try looking at Word Perfect. I don't know much about word
	processing but it sounds like theirs is farely solid. I also
	think somebody here or someplace mentioned that they had a 
	student discount price of about $90.


> 	2)	One of the main things that attracted me to the
> 		Amiga was walking into Software Etc. and noticing
> 		that there were books published by Commodore itself
> 
            
	These would probably be the Rom Kernal Manuals from Addison-
	Wesley. It sounds like the new v1.3 ones are very good and
	being v1.3 they shouldn't be out of date - yet. V1.4 is
	probably (hopefully) right around the corner and it sounds
	like there will be enough changes to warrent a new release
	of the manuals. I'm debating whether to wait for new ones.
	I have a couple of the Abacus books and they are very good
	at detail and examples, but I'm not that wild about their
	writing style. Rob Peck's book "Programmers Guide to the
	Amiga" seems to be a favorite of many although it is slightly
	dated and doesn't have as many examples as the Abacus books.
	Rob does do a very good job (IMO) with discussion on the
	principles.


> 	3)	I have heard that there are some problems with the 
> 		memory protection on an Amiga.  

	It isn't that there are some problems but that there is a lack
	of a MMU on the 68000. It seems that since most personal 
	computers are not multi-tasking they do not need MMU's and the
	bigger machines that do have multi-tasking run on a chip that 
	does have or supports memory management. We are sort of (happily
	for the most part) caught in the middle. I don't think there
	are that many problems with machines crashing from poor memory
	management, and when there is it is more a problem of poorly
	written applications that the OS itself.