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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 15:07:01 GMT

In article <1991Jun24.131045.4403@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <1991Jun24.041238.21611@agora.rain.com>, robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton) writes:
>>
>>  The point was, you were TOTALLY wrong and still refuse to admit it.
>>Typical, indeed.
>
>   OK, I was mistaken on a minor detail about the clipboard.  In the grand
>scheme of things, what does this prove?  The overall functionality of the
>Amiga's clipboard still sucks compared to the one on the Macintosh, and 
>flaming me is not going to change that.  
>
	1) You were wrong in a MAJOR detail. The clipboard takes
IFF, not ASCII. That means graphics, sounds, animations, etc. You
implied text only.
	2) How is the Amiga clipboard inferior? You haven't
presented that. You simply said it was unsupported and that is
why it sucks. That proves nothing. Try proving something.
	-- Ethan

FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
Take one down,			Pass it to ground,
FE buckets of bits on the bus.