Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!ptavoly From: ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce Message-ID: <1991May27.101538.6959@cs.ruu.nl> Date: 27 May 91 10:15:38 GMT References: <1991May22.211703.22445@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991May22.222801.4049@convex.com> <1991May23.012705.24776@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991May23.083717.1055@cs.ruu.nl> <1991May23.153644.10681@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May24.145855.43 Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 32 In <1991May25.042959.12386@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes: >>That is no answer, the more operating systems you use, the more time you spend >>interfacing, instead of doing your work. (Even if the particular OS might be >>'better') Only if you substitute one OS for another, that might make sense. > >I think that is an answer. :) We use MS-DOG machines at work, and I had to [some deleted] >What could be easier than the elegant AmigaOS - flipping between screens and CLIs with dmouse? > >I spend 8 hours a day sometimes helping people with problems that would >be non-problems on an Amiga. You were talking about business. I see the >bottom line as 'how can I be more productive'? I totally agree of course, but what you do here is (as I said) substituting one OS for another. I can imagine that once MS-DOS users get the hang of it, they want to get rid of their MS-DOS machine, but unfortunately, there must be an initial introduction to Amigas and that is something for the managers to decide (who only see those big buck IBM ads). >Dan Griffin >griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu -Thomas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ____ Thomas Tavoly, Commercial Computer Science - HEAO Utrecht, NL. / / / "Whoever talks too much, has no time to think." - Peter Tavoly. AMIGA / Favourite quote: "The Mac OS is amazingly complex, ____ / / / .sig v3.0e given how little it does." - Peter da Silva \ \ \/ / / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>> ptavoly@praxis.cs.ruu.nl <<~~~~~~~~~ \_\_\/_/