Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future)) Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 22:00:18 GMT References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu> <4264.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <43@rypty Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 55 In article <1991Jun12.010912.6193@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >>> 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 > >> Er, woop de doo. Why do you want several people messing with the >> same picture, or same Microsoft Word file, or whatever? > > Suppose you want to work with your colleage on a proposal. Unfortunately, >your colleague is in Auckland, and you're in Wellington. Now, you both >have copies of the most recent printout, which you want to make changes >to together. Hmmm, do you ring him up, and try to explain where you're talking >about over the phone? How about sending a dozen faxes as you go back and >forth over the changes? Or how about just getting it both on your computer >screens, and working on it in real-time? > This sounds like a REAL LONG LAN, to stretch from Auckland to Wellington :) >> Of the >> products that one sees outlined, the project management ones seem >> the most reasonable. > > Another very big one is product training. You're the microcomputer >support person for the company. A user rings you up wanting to know >why he can't print out to his laser printer. > You just fire up your copy of Timbuktu, or Carbon Copy, make his >machine into a host, and start controlling his computer directly from >yours. Having worked briefly in a microcomputer support group, I can >tell you that something like this would have saved around 50% of the >support person's time. My $.02: Network dependant applications, such as multiuser databases, paint programs, etc., are made possible by LANs and WANs. There is certainly a lot of potential for what can be done in a group on a LAN as opposed to individual users just sharing resources. On the other hand, the people who are doing these applications are using the wrong machine, because the Amiga makes MORE possible (this is .advocacy, after all :) > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu >"Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gravy... Leave my shoes >and door unlocked, I might just slip away - hey - just for the day." -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************