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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Attention Amiga (and Amiga to be) Users!
Summary: Why my Amiga's OK (no flame), and where can I find some music (MIDI)?
Message-ID: <431@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 90 19:32:08 GMT
References: <1990Nov4.220612.21316@cbnewsl.att.com> <35605@cup.portal.com> <9537@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <9537@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes:
> In article <1990Nov5.211447.17590@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
....
> >	I'm having a ball!!!  I've never had so much bundled software that's
> >	actually better than anything I ever owned on the Amiga (except games
> >	of course!!!)  More professional too!  Show me Mathematica for the
> >	Amiga ...

But as many people have pointed out, there is Maple... I dunno, maybe
they are very different programs, but you can hardly condemn a platform
based on one program, anyway.
....
> >	Felix A. Lugo
> **   Bill Gribble                     Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA   **
...

Felix, Marc Barrett:  Many if not most Amiga users have no use for UNIX;
in fact, for average people, UNIX is far to bulky.  (After having first-hand
experience with a UNIX system, I would rather not have to help other people
deal with system problems.  So, in my professional environment at work, I
would rather do customer support for MS-DOS than UNIX, although I prefer UNIX
at home.)  So, in short, I think that while some people get very excited about
UNIX, it seems silly to me to suggest (as the original article did) that Amiga
will suffer from any UNIX platform -- they are 2 different things.  The
Amiga UNIX could be considered a different machine, from this perspective
(since with the UNIX OS, it is a different machine, unable to run AmigaDOS
programs).

I hope this doesn't sound like a flame.  Of course, it still contains my
opinion, but I have, I hope, posted something of interest to someone.

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I also wanted to know if there is an FTP site which has MIDI scores?  I am
not too picky, but would like some nifty things to play around with Music-X.
Would some scores intended for other computers/programs work as well?
(Music-X supports some sort of standard MIDI file format.)  If not FTP,
how about a BBS?

A long time ago I had contacted a company that sold MIDI scores to popular
music.  This sounded like a neat idea, one that I may try in the future.
(They used MANY tracks to approach the original.  4 tracks, like some DMCS
scores I've seen, just don't cut it.)
--
Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS                        // Amiga!
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