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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 00:58:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>>   Actually, networking on the Amiga in general is still very, very primitive.
>>It is very rare to find Amigas used in a networking environement, while it
>>is rare to find MACs not being used in a network.  If Amigas are being used
>>in a network, they are probably running Amiga UNIX.  The networking 
>>software for AmigaDOS has only been available from Commodore for less than
>>two years, and is largely ignored (very few Amiga applications have 
>>networking-related features).
>>
>	Marc, you've been mixing up two concepts for several
>messages now. Just because few people use the thing (in this case
>networking) doesn't mean it is primitive. In fact, Amiga
>networking isn't close to very, very primitive. In fact, Amiga
>networking follows all the standards, from the hardware with
>Arcnet and Ethernet, to the software with Novell and TCP/IP and
>X11. What more you want I haven't figured out.

   You have explicity stated the problem yourself, yet you don't even see
it.  The Amiga has all of the technical stuff to support networks, yes,
but no actual applications geared toward networking.

   I am talking about applicatioins such as WordPerfect Office, which 
is a very good applications package geared toward networking.  Both MSWord
and MAC WordPerfect also have extra features for MACs on a network.  As
far as I know, the Amiga has no applications like WordPerfect Office,
and none of the Amiga word processors or desktop publishing programs 
include extra features for networked Amigas.

   So, on the Amiga you have all the bare-bones requirements for networking.
You can set up a basic network of Amigas, and you can even set up your own
Amiga FTP site.  However, there are no applications available to make a
network of Amigas truly usable.
   
>	-- Ethan
>
>Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
>Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
>I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
>How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin
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