Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!bairds From: bairds@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Shawn L. Baird) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: <2150@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 91 23:30:36 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> <29MAR91.20331910@uc780.umd.edu> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 27 mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >This is a *dangerous* thread to start. It seems to me that if it >boots from a floppy, it isn't much of a workstation. If there isn't >any productivity software (word processors, spreadsheets, draw programs), >etc., that you can easily run on the machine, you can't do much work on >it. Try fitting a word processor, the OS, fonts, and all the rest of the >things you need on a floppy. Yep, that's work. On a stock A500, yes. Although stock A500's are very common and probably a better bet for marketing game titles, my A500, and I'm sure many others run higher level productivity software. An A500 is not an inexpandable game console. Although more difficult to expand than an A2000, it expands readily enough. I believe I even saw an ad recently for a "Flicker Fixer" type hardware device for the A500. My machine can hold just as much memory as someones A2000. :P My hard drive is probably just as fast (I haven't seen any comparisons between the GVP Series II A500+ and the A2000 models). Give me a Bodega Bay and an ATonce card (not to mention a Hurricane board) and I'll be humming along at a nice clip. ;) Anyways, just wanted to point out that a lot of people treat the A500 like dirt around here. I'm damned glad I have my A500 and, at this point, don't even mind not having an A2000 (Assuming, of course, that after I get my Hurricane board I'll be able to get an Amiga UNIX package from C= ;) --- Shawn L. Baird, bairds@eecs.ee.pdx.edu, Wraith on DikuMUD The above message is not licensed by AT&T, or at least, not yet.