Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!aunro!ukma!widener!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!jonabbey From: jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Hyper Functionality [was Re: Amiga Conversion...] Message-ID: <315@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 26 Apr 91 17:50:48 GMT References: <1991Apr22.071413.22219@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr26.073554.10580@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 37 In article <1991Apr26.073554.10580@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu(Pete Goodeve) writes: | |I had a very frustrating and worrying -- though at the same time very |entertaining -- experience tonight... [Hunh?? (:-))] [... the mac has structured, defined inter-app comm. NOW...] |THEY have had to wait for a multitasking OS before they could think of such |things [and of course System 7.0 comes on between 8 and 13 floppies...] but |I'm very much afraid that the big boys may now leave C=A standing in the |dust. WE've had multitasking since day 1, and we've just sat on our butts! | | |My respect for Microsoft product may be pretty low, but my impression of |Gates is that he still has dreams. Where are the dreamers (at least in a |position to really do something about it) on our side of the fence? | | -- Pete -- Commodore probably can't be aggressive in going after this because they don't have a large base of installed professional users who would take advantage of this enough to generate much new sales. The old bootstrapping problem. I think such a thing is definitely needed on the Amiga, though. I may have some amount of free time this summer.. I may be interested in working on this. Of course, I could do that a lot better if 2.0 were to come out for the 1000.. 8-) The problem is really standardizing what we want, right? I really need to dive into the PPIPC docs. Maybe I can put them all in HT.. 8-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan David Abbey \"Fortune presents gifts not according to the the university of texas at austin \ book" - Dead Can Dance "I've got to computer science/math?/psychology? \ jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu stay Awake..."