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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <4381.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 12 Jun 91 08:14:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu> <4264.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.n <4332.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun11.165524.4720@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Quoted from <1991Jun11.165524.4720@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> by rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell):

>   Don't forget AmigaDOS allows you to transparently mount any type
> of device. File sharing printers/modems is almost the same as sharing

    I'm not forgetting that. I think this is an _excellent_ example of
    good design re the Amiga's OS.

    However, as far as networking goes a nice feature would be the
    ability to mix machines, which cuts a bit on sharing CPU resources,
    because of binary/OS incompatibility. Going with a more standard
    OS, the Amiga has an apparently solid Unix. And at the file
    access level there is Novell and the Sun thing, NFS?

> idea. Humans don't intermesh as well as computers, and editing
> a document is not the same as working on an assembly line. Imagine
> right in the middle of typing a sentence someone alters the sentence

    Yes, at that level I think it's pointless. There are applications
    that do things more like database servers, where users lock parts of
    the data to modify it.

    I mean, there are applications. They just aren't common, or the
    primary usefulness of LANs.

> / INET:rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu     *   // The opinions expressed here do not      \
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