Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr21.151528.22855@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Apr 91 15:15:28 GMT References: <10904@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 62 A few you missed... things in 7.0 that we've been doing for years. In article <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes: > System 7.0 Amiga > 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. In fact, the AMiga has had dynamic inter-application communication for years, using AREXX. The hooks (message passing) have been there from the start: try starting up Soundscape Pro Midi Studio and Deluxe Music together some time. > 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. A standard file format, IFF, has existed from the beginning. > OS level file location facilities PD and commercial file searching > utilities available I'm not sure what you mean by this, but "search file" has been part of the operating system from the beginning. > 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 This is ludicrous. AREXX has existed for years. > sound manager standard 2:1 or 3:1 ??? > compression of digitized sound Fibbonacci delta encoding is the standard compression format, and gives 2:1 with fast playback. > communication toolbox managages vendors must write their own code > serial, appletalk, ethernet to manage these Not at all. The file system is the manager. > 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. How about someone more knowledgable of AmigaOS 1.0, let alone 1.2 or 1.3? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .