Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part V (last) Message-ID: <1991Mar27.192635.3835@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 27 Mar 91 19:26:35 GMT References: <23788@well.sf.ca.us> <23837@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 31 In article mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >In article <23837@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: >>Then why do so many game developers keep treating it like it is? One >>of the things the Amiga can do that those machines can't is to run a >>full and fast multitasking OS - why are you so insistent that the first >>thing we should do is throw that away? >> >I hate to respond to this twice, but... A PC can run UNIX >and a Mac can run AUX. Those are fuller multitasking OS'es >than the Amiga's although not as good at realtime response. > >Q: By the way, do you know why the Atari ST operating system is >called TOS? > >A: Because the first thing you do is TOSS it. > >>-- >>Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us > >-- >******************************************************** >* Appendix A of the Amiga Hardware Manual tells you * >* everything you need to know to take full advantage * >* of the power of the Amiga. And it is only 10 pages! * >******************************************************** Can this message and the other entitled "AmigaWorld lied" get moved out of the main stream? I'm sick to death of coming accross those messages and it seems like they are the bulk of messages on comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga.hardware, and comp.sys.amiga.programmer. I'm sorry to waste bandwidth.