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From: stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.200731.28431@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 20:07:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.125210.3651@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>	My 3000 supports a WorkBench of up to 16,000 by 16,000 - but I can't
>imagine anyone USING a WB/desktop that large. It's much faster to just flip
>through several "screens" (or drag them down partially if you are lucky enough
>to use an Amiga (:-)) than to scroll/jump around a single large display.
>	If they had some kind of direct optical input, where if you turned
>your head you would scroll over the desktop as if it was a REAL desktop,
>they might be more usefull...

I've never made up my mind about those pull down screens.  That's an option
I'd like to have available on the Mac.  I haven't done enough Amiga productivity
stuff to form a solid opinion.  The closest the Mac has is the ability to
set aside either the current application layer or all other layers.  It's a
quick way to hide applications that aren't relevant at the moment.

Tell me when you have that direct optical hookup ready for beta!
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