Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga mentality Message-ID: <16296@snow-white.udel.EDU> Date: 9 Apr 90 20:22:48 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 38 From: Michael Thomas Niehaus Date: 8 Apr 90 20:35:05 GMT > 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: ...stuff deleted... -- 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) here's a BRIEF comment about the amiga, since I don't have time for more: I'm used to fast machines with fast interfaces that stay out of your way and at the same time help you get stuff done. I program the connection machine from symbolics lisp machines or sun sparcstations running X11. I've extensively used IBM PC's, macintosh, and amiga computers, and the amiga in my opinion is head and shoulders above the rest. The overall feel of the machine is fast and smooth and doesn't get in my way. It doesn't make me wait for stuff. This is not simply indicative of speed but of its multitasking ability. Like, I think nothing of telling the computer to start up a big file compression job in the background while I then go off and fire up my editor (or flip screens back to my midi program I'm running or to the TeX previewer or whatever...) anyway, there's basically no comparison. It's hard to understand why there's any competition. Monty Kosma Lockheed Advanced Research (still)