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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0
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Date: 29 May 90 22:40:57 GMT
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On 29 May 90 14:50:16 GMT you said:
>
>   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.
>
     You are right.  It would be very easy to add menu items to the shell
 window.  My responce is that if you are using the CLI, then you are
 going out of your way to avoid using the GUI.  It's a philosophical
 question.

>   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.
>
     Having a GUI *INSIDE* your CLI is almost comical.  Just remember
 that you are not limited to Commodore's Shell.  There are dozens of
 them available.  Why don't you write your own?

>   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.
>
     Speech synthesis is a toy.  No system will be hindered or hailed
 on respect of sheech synthesis.

     I intended on having many "constructive criticisms" of 2.0, but
 from what I've read, my complaint list may be very small.  Any idea
 when 2.0 will be available?

>
>                                  -MB-

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