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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0
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Date: 29 May 90 14:50:16 GMT
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   This is not going to come as much of a surprise to most people here,
but I have some complaints about Amiga OS 2.0.

   With this release of the Amiga's OS, the Amiga is supposed to be
made much easier-to-use and a lot more friendly.  Yet, whole parts of
the Amiga's OS were hardly touched at all.

   I am speaking of the Shell windows.  With both OS 1.3 and OS 2.0,
nothing happens when the right mouse button is pressed with a Shell
window active.  This seems to me to be a terrible waste of a whole
section of the Amiga's OS.  I had hoped that some limited Intuition
support would be added to the Shell -- such as Shell menus -- but
Commodore chose not to do this.  Now let's all be honest with each
other; adding menus to the Shell windows would have taken Commodore
at most a week to do.

   I had hoped that, with Amiga OS 2.0, the parts of the Amiga's OS
which still totally lack Intuition support -- such as the Shell --
would be given Intuition support.  Such support absolutely would
not interfere at all with the normal use of the Shell, and would
greatly facilitate it's use.  But I guess this was not to be.

   I also have a beef with the speach support with Amiga OS 2.0.
When the Alpha version of OS 1.4 was shown, Commodore announced
that the Amiga's speach software was going to be substantially
improved, making the Amiga's speach sound much more human-like.
However, when trying out Amiga OS 2.0 on an A3000, I could not
detect any improvements whatsoever in the Amiga's speach
synthesis.


                                  -MB-