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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MACS & IBMS (pc's)
Message-ID: <2173@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 90 13:25:20 GMT
References: <20472@snow-white.udel.EDU> <764@teslab.lab.OZ> <1990Jun5.010240.17383@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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In article <1990Jun5.010240.17383@sunee.waterloo.edu> gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler (Co-Op Scum)) writes:
|In article <764@teslab.lab.OZ> charles@teslab.lab.oz.au (Charles W. Widepy) writes:
|>An MSDOS clone can do anything an Amiga can with the appropriate
|>add-ons. Windows, mouses, sound cards, RAM disks, even several
|>multitasking additions (but lots of problems and no intertask comms
|>etc).
|
|Intertask communication has been built into Windows since 2.11.  Some very
|upscale apps use it, including Excel and Word for Windows.  Most of the 3.0
|apps will be including it in some form.
|
|>
|>MHO and some facts.  I don't want a flame war but I couldn't let
|>these inaccuracies pass.
|
|Ditto

The only problem with add-ons is that not everyone has them.  At least in the
Amiga environment everyone has all the software needed to run any application
just by having the OS.  Same thing with hardware really.  I know my app will
run on another Amiga because everyone has a mouse, everyone has the same
display, etc.  I also have the advantage that I don't have to have a mouse
driver or printer driver to write for my app to take advantage of those
resources.  I also don't have to worry about TSR's that don't live well
together.

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