Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb16.033940.25415@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 16 Feb 91 03:39:40 GMT References: <43979@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb11.115551.1844@sugar.hackercorp.com> <637.27b9ca43@vger.nsu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 30 In article <637.27b9ca43@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: > Why would you say AmigaVision suffers from lack of vision. The iconic programming language is cute, but it's as full of frustrating limitations as COBOL. How come you can't wait on an arbitrary condition, instead of just keyboard/mouse? I want to wait on the completion of a spoken phrase while doing screen-flipping in the background, for example. I couldn't *believe* there was no way to do that. The only saving grace is the ability to call REXX so you can drop out of the icons and use a real programming language. > What vision is > it that you _think_ must be included in order for you to consider this a > good product. How about a runtime-only module so it'll run in a stock 512K Amiga? So you can distribute "compiled" flows to people? > We are waiting for your final solution. When can I expect to get this > new wonder software? I sure hope it will stand up to my idea of "vision". I doubt it. I'm a UNIX freak. My idea of an ideal multimedia program is a bunch of separate modules hooked together with REXX and the MIDI library. The fancy front-end would be just that, a front-end. Hook the modules together with "pipes" that carry MIDI events, but it'd save it as a text script. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .