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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.043014.22805@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 04:30:14 GMT
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>Why can't text processing be done in 640x200? IBM's Text mode on
>the older machines was 80 columns x 25 lines and it didn't seem to 
>inhibit their ability to dominate the market.

  Yes, but 80 x 25 was better than anything else on the market at 
the time...  Most other machines were struggling with either all
uppercase, or 64 x 16, or 40 x 24 or some other weird combination.
  640 x 200 can hardly be counted as better than anything else 
on the market.

>  CDTV isn't a computer. I doubt I'll be doing any programming/word
>processing on it. AmigaDOS is superior to the Mac in that I am not
>forced to use Workbench if I dont want to. The Shell interface
>is just as powerful as the Graphical one(Workbench 2.0) whereas the
>Mac hasn't developed a great shell interface that works with ALL
>programs. (Tell me, does Word take command line arguements?)

 Yeah it does.
  I type the following on my MPW command line.

Word My_New_File <enter>
 
and it starts and opens My_New_File.

And with the addition of AppleEvents etc, and a scripting language
like Frontier, the Mac has the ability to become a fairly powerful
"shell"-based computer.

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Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
"If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?   You'd be in the
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