Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Word processors that take over the machine (was: Lemmings) Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 01:42:51 GMT References: <1991Mar25.050519.29068@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar26.205540.18279@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Drew University - Madison NJ Lines: 21 In article nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) writes: > There are a whole bunch of word processors out there that are > amazingly fast, with incredibly swift font rendering, instantaneous Did anyone notice that CygnusED Pro does a Forbid() for the duration of it's screen scrolls? ...and I thought that they just had a funky algorithm. Now I know why flipping through text files with CED screws up my downloads. Is there a way to disable this? > The analogy is flawed, of course, but here's my point: There are lots > of people who bought Amigas because they were game machines. On the > other hand, there are lots of people who bought Amigas because they > could be both game machines and productivity machines. If you have a No, the analogy is very good. The "Turnabout Is Fair Play" method is quite effective when two sides are trying to understand each other. I just hope that people *read* what you wrote and took some time to *think* about it. Tom