Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr20.235445.29592@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The Internet References: <10904@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 91 23:54:45 GMT Lines: 95 In article <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes: >>Care to give it a go Mr. System 7.0? > >OK. > >System 7.0 Amiga > >outline font technology standard bitmaps or application dependent >True type or postscript supported outline fonts >by every application. (will be CG fonts soon) >inter-application communication copy/paste isn't even standard for >(provides live links between docs all apps and no IAC, not even on >from any vendor's apps) the horizon. Sorry but the Amiga wins hands down Copy/paste from CON windows is here. Arexx blows away IAC. standard. Also, clipboard cut Arexx is STANDARD. and paste has been standard Also, Arexx is supported by for a long time, however LOTS of Apps. How many Mac not many Amiga apps use it. App's use IAC at this moment? >baloon help manager provides help screens are app specific thus >easy, standard way to add help the user must learn how to access >facilities to an application help screens in each program 2.0 has a standard way of help. Press the help key over a menu item/gadte and you get a 'MENUHELP' message sent to your app. It's not great, but they are working on it. >file sharing at OS level standard file sharing is possible cheaply >allows you to publish files to through a pd program as well as >any user that you want to access it commericial apps, but it is not > standard and does not come with the OS. > And no amiga networking is as simple > as Personal Appleshare in 7.0. There is a standard, it's called SANA. >OS level file location facilities PD and commercial file searching > utilities available Sorry, but the search and which commands have been around since AmigaDOS 1.3.2. Try again. >AppleScript and event manager sends no protocal for doing this exists >messages between apps to perform or will exist in 2.0 >a variety of functions BZZZZZT! Thanks for playing. AmigaOS has had the abilities to send messages to apps since day one, and Arexx (a fully complete and easy to learn language) is part of AmigaDOS and has been around since 1987. For instance, you can send messages from a term program to a paint program to save a pic, and then have the term upload it,etc. >sound manager standard 2:1 or 3:1 ??? >compression of digitized sound audio.device, SMUS and IFF 8SVX standard for 2:1 compression. >communication toolbox managages vendors must write their own code >serial, appletalk, ethernet to manage these Preferences (it's lame, but it's standard) > >This is not all-inclusive but includes most of the new features. Anyone >more knowledgeable on Amiga OS 2.0 feel free to correct my amiga comments. To the Amiga's side, let's add Commodities Exchange, a standardized way to manage the input streams on the Amiga so screen blankers, input enhancers, and INIT style stuff isn't load order dependent. Let's also mention the Amiga's built in speech, which has been improved. Seriously, Apple's inter-process communication falls far short of Arexx on the Amiga, and 7.0's slowness and memory hogging makes it look like a turtle compared the AmigaOS. On top of that, Apple still hasn't standardized a method for resident/pure code sharing has it? For instance, I can make a C compiler resident on the Amiga and have 2-3 compiles going at once without using hardly any extra memory except stack and heap storage. Multifinder still requires memory 'partitioning' doesn't it? -- / INET:rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu * // The opinions expressed here do not \ | INET:r_cromwe@upr2.clu.net | \X/ in any way reflect the views of my self.| \ UUCP:uunet!tnc!m0023 * /