Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 91 20:03:11 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> <29MAR91.20331910@uc780.umd.edu> Organization: The Search For Terrestrial Intelligence Lines: 26 In article 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. This is the second time you've said something that makes no sense at all to me! First, the 2000 boots from a floppy also. What's that? You say you can put a hard drive in a 2000? Well, you can put one on (or recently, even in) a 500 too. But neither of them ships with one. Second, you might not be able to set up much of a productivity environment on one floppy, but how about two floppies? I've done it. If you strip down your Workbench and implode your application, you just might be able to fit it on one (assuming you're willing to swap disks to load and save projects.) But the OS supports up the three floppies on the external drive connector (it's just that the !#$@% power supply doesn't!) -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)