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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: It's really tough to debate with ignorant...
Message-ID: <1991May8.014526.15073@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 May 91 01:45:26 GMT
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dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:

>  I have a 40 meg hard drive, and 2.5 megs of ram, with the following
>software on my HARD DRIVE, plus lots of other stuff, and tons of pictures,
>fonts and source code, which fill a 12 megabyte partition:

>Quarterback: hard drive back up, defragmenter
>BAD: defragmentor
>Project D: floppy copy program, software catalog tool, parameters
>Disk X: disk editor
>NewZap: file editor
>AZ: text editor
>CED: ARexx text editor
>SID: file utility program
>DMSwin, Zoom, Lharc, Arc, Zoo, Booz, PkaZip, Lhunarc, Unarc,
>PowerPacker, Turbo Imploder, Warp, NibWarp, Unwarp: disk/file compressors
>Virus X, Virus Checker

>HiSoft Basic: BASIC compiler
>Amiga BASIC: BASIC interpreter
>Lattice C: C compiler
>Kick Pascal: Pascal compiler
>ARexx: Rexx interpreter
>DICE: C compiler
>PCQ: Pascal compiler

>Amax II: Macintosh emulator

>Bars and Pipes: music program
>Deluxe Music Construction Set: music program
>Sonix: sound program
>Future Sound: sound program

>Pagesetter 1.61: desktop publisher
>Pagestream 1.3: desktop publisher
>Pro Page 2.0: desktop publisher
>Pro Draw: structured drawing program for desktop publishers

>Pro Write 3.0: word processor
>excellence 2.0: word processor

>Imagine: 3D modeling program
>Turbo Silver: 3D modeling program
>Sculpt 3D: 3D modeling program
>Surface Master: Imagine surface program
>Pixel 3D: 2D to 3D image converter

>Deluxe Paint III: IFF paint program, animation
>Photon Paint 2.0: HAM paint program, animation
>SpectraColor: HAM paint program, animation
>The Art Department: converts files from various formats
>Image Lab: converts files from various formats
>Aegis Draw 2000: CAD structured drawing program
>Pixmate: use to adjust attributes of HAM and IFF pictures

>JR Comm 1.02: terminal program, VT100, zmodem
>Handshake 2.20: terminal program, VT100, external protocols

>QIX
>Sim City
>Blockout

>  Yeah, if your a rich cheap person. I bought my hard drive for $250.
                   ^^^^

  Seems to me like there are a LOT of commercial applications in your
list of software on your hard disk.  How on earth could you avoid all those
programs, yet you don't want to buy a $1000 hard disk??

>           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   


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