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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <00671144739@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 91 21:05:39 GMT
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From article <af4G&1qj1@cs.psu.edu>, by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> Hmmm.  You might just be coming around.  The Amiga interface doesn't
> need to be any snappier(do need 2.0 ROMs on all machines), but now you
> might want to add a little more functionality to the machine by adding
> Adobe Fonts and Display Postscript.  This might mean a little more to
> people than the speed of the GUI.  After a certain speed, the speed of
> the GUI really doens't matter that much.

AmigaDOS 2.0 will be released with scalable font technology. No Display
Postscript, though. (Something similar to Display Postscript that wasn't so
CPU-hungry might be nice for AmigaDOS 3.0, though, to finally get the
window system hardware-independent).

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