Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!amix!undrground!accangel From: undrground!accangel@amix.commodore.com (Mark Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 20:33:02 GMT References: <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu> Lines: 45 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > To much for you to handle? Amiga users have such high standards. To > bad the game companies are the only ones that can deliver products to > your satisfaction. > > -Mike You know, I am getting DAMN sick of your snide little comments that the only quality Amiga software is represented by games. But I'll let that go. And so.... **** FLAME ON **** Amiga users, strangely enough, APPRECIATE tight code. 1 1/2 megabytes for one program is a bit steep, to put it mildly. Does that fancy Objective C compiler you keep harping about do ANY code optimization whatsoever? Or is most of that space taken up by buttons and sliders created with the wonderful NeXT interface builder, which has to draw ALL the graphic elements in Display Postscript? What the heck does Lotus Improv do, anyway? Y'see, if I really like a program, use it a lot, etc., I put it on my hard drive. No problem. If I only use it once or twice, I'd like to be able to keep it and its associated files on one or two floppy disks. HOWEVER, your fine example of bloated and overweight code would need a bloody SHOEHORN to squeeze onto a high-density floppy, and leave no room for a user's documents, macros, batch files, whatever. This is a program which I would not consider buying unless I really, REALLY needed it. So please, take your overinflated program (dare I say overinflated ego, too?) and talk about portability somewhere else. Improv sounds about as portable as a sperm whale. **** FLAME OFF **** In closing, I must say that these NeXTwars here are dragging on a little too much. Don't you guys have your own newsgroups? -MG "And thus the Lord spake, and the masses cried out, 'Huh?'" ---------- Mark Gardner UUCP: uunet!cbmvax!amix!undrground!accangel Internet: undrground!accangel@amix.commodore.com