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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1499.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 20 Mar 91 01:05:55 GMT
References: <9103101900.AA19362@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <12014@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <971@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <971@cbmger.UUCP> by peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY):
> In article <12014@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:

> >Not that I am trying to say the Amiga is any better -- to cancel an Amiga
> >requester, you can hit the <cancel> box (which is nice), or you can use
> >Amiga-B (which is not intuitive either).

> This topic was discussed heavily among developers. The result is:
> Those key combinations are INTENTIONALLY UNUSUAL! Again this comes
> from the issue that you have to consider multitasking at every moment.

    Hm. I thought it was because they were close to the C= key, and
    on the front row of the keyboard. Same goes for N and M, which flip
    the Workbench screen around.

    Can't say I find them any easier to use because of that, but then I'm
    not a typist, and the original designers' hands may have been
    different to mine size- and position-wise.

> Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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