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From: Martin@pnt.CAM.ORG (Martin Taillefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0
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Date: 29 May 90 20:02:00 GMT
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>   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 do not agree. A CLI is a CLI. If you want UI-type interface, go use
Workbench. It has tons of menus. Anyway, it is easy to replace the standard
shell by a new one which would support menus.

>   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.

I guess you forgot you were running a BETA of 2.0. Please reserve these
comments for the final release. The speech is indeed much improved, but not on
the betas in the store.

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