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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.064750.5770@news.iastate.edu>
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 06:47:50 GMT
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In article <1308@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Dan Galpin (Amiga-quester)) writes:
>>
>>Okay.. Go into your favorite draw program. Draw something. Put it in the 
>>clipboard (if the program even supports it). Just try putting it into one
>>of your favorite documents without saving it or converting it... or
>>(even worse) capturing a screen rendition as a bitmap, saving to disk, and
>>loading it into the publisher. 
>
>Well, I admit that the clipboard concept on the Amiga is not, err,
>very successfull.

   That is a vast understatement!  Even under AmigaOS 2.0, the clipboard
is terrible.  It is not only broken, but practically non-existant.  Most
Amiga users don't even know that the Amiga even has a clipboard, because
nothing supports it, even for text (let alone graphics!).

>But there really is a quasi-standard for these
>things: Brushes. They are understood by most of the graphics/drawing
>programs and also by the DTP programs.

   Brushes are not a substitute for a working clipboard.  You still have to
save the brush and re-load it.  This is an enourmous hassle compared with
the ease that you can transfer graphics and text between applications on
the Macintosh.  

   The clipboard on the Macintosh is something that has no equal on the
Amiga.  This is too bad, because the clipboard is a very nice aid to 
multitasking.  The fact that the Amiga basically does not have a working
clipboard is hurting it badly.

>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

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