Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <22298@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 15:27:34 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1308@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Jun7.064750.5770@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 38 In article <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > It is very different. The Amiga's clipboard was originally intended only >for transferring straight ASCII text between applications. It was never >intended to even be used to transfer graphics. The clipboard on the Mac, Were you even aware from day 1 that only IFF code was allowed to be sent to the clipboard.device ? This would seem to imply the ability to transfer graphics. >however, is very sophisticated. It transfers text and graphics flawlessly >between applications, and nearly all applications support the clipboard. > > So, even if all Amiga applications supported the clipboard (a very big >IF!), the Amiga's clipboard would still not compare at all to the clipboard >on the Macintosh. The MAC's clipboard is as far above the Amiga's >clipboard as the Amiga's multitasking is above the MAC's multitasking. > > The Amiga's clipboard cannot be fixed, as it is too unsupported and >weak to be fixed. The clipboard needs to be totally replaced by something In your position of not actually knowing anything about the Amiga clipboard.device, what allows you to make this statement ? Marc, you don't program the Amiga, you haven't read the manuals, and you don't take the time to understand. Do you even still own your A500 ? andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "2.0 is not the answer. 2.0 is the question. Yes is the answer." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.