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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
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Date: 10 Jun 91 08:47:37 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"Isn't the meat and potatoes of networking access to files on other
    machines?"

That's SOME of it.

"Where I work, the network is used as a means of having lots of
    people access the same files. There are no applications with extras
    specifically for networking, except email (which does exist on the
    Ami)."

I guess this is the standard mentality of Amiga owners who think the extent of
networking is to make accessing files across a network transparent to apps.
Ever heard of colaborative computing? Every tried it? There are no applications
specifically for networking? There are several on the Mac! For instance, in
a painting program, different users can be editing the same document and see
each others changes immediately and be able to add their own. There are 
integrated packages that do this, specialized packages (database, of course, 
as well as drawing, painting, word processing, etc).