Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga mentality Message-ID: <11048@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 8 Apr 90 20:35:05 GMT References: <2128@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 55 > I'd hate to see a Mac user try to use any other type of computer...give them > some flexibility in the way you can accomplish something, and you confuse > them... Luckily, I think this is humorous... Let's look at other systems from a Mac user's perspective: 1. MS-DOS. Programming is a breeze (partially due to the simplicity of the operating system). Maybe it isn't the prettiest in the world, but this computer would be my next choice if I didn't have a Mac. 2. VAX/VMS. My third-favorite. The power and completeness of the VMS operating system are excellent. The software development tools are good, but the prepackaged software for it is somewhat lacking. (There is Word Perfect, but all other VAX applications [not including DECwindows] drive me up a wall.) 3. IBM mainframes, any variety. Ick. I'd rather die than put up with these. (Maybe that's why I'm going to work for a company that prides itself on its 3090's...) 4. UNIX machines. Kind of gross and powerful until you put a nice pretty interface on it. But it takes one heck of a machine. And the prepackaged software is similar to that for VMS. (And yes, I hate vi.) 5. Atari ST. I have absolutely no idea. I've never seen one. 6. Amiga. Ditto. I have seen one, but I have no idea what the strong points of the machine are. (There has to be more than animation and music.) 7. Macintosh. The interface is consistant, but a pain to program. The great prepackaged software is what has me hooked. I live in MacWrite II, PageMaker, Persuasion, Think C, Think Pascal, MacDraw II, HyperCard, and Mac240. Originally, the cross-postings to comp.sys.mac raised my interest in the Amiga, because I realized that I knew about as much about the Amiga as Amiga users normally know about the Mac. But I have been reading this group for several weeks now, and have learned very little about the machine. So if anyone has made it this far into this article without hitting 'n', I'm looking for some constructive comments about the Amiga. Feel free to mail them directly to me. I'll put them together in one article and post it to comp.sys.mac and comp.sys.amiga. -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)