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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 21:56:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.150701.1686@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	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

Of course it does, Ethan.  Look, the clipboard exists mainly for people
actually INTERESTED in providing a reasonable user interface.  If it isn't
used, it is definitely inferior to one that is.  Don't you think?

Let's say Apple stuck an AMD 29000 chip into every Mac to speed up graphics.
Except that their operating system would need to be rewritten to support it --
and they never did that.  Does that make their design inferior or superior to
the Amiga chipset?

Inferior, of course.  All these Mac-heads would be sitting there talking about
their cool graphics chips, and we'd be telling them that they were NEVER
USED, so WHAT'S THE POINT?  Would you then say, well just because they were
never used doesn't make it inferior?

Or, perhaps more realistically, they provide for DMA driven activity in their
top of the line model, but never updated their OS to support it....

Same thing goes for OS's and software.

Take a pill, dude, our OS doesn't even have Paste(), Copy() or Cut()
routines -- sure the equivalents may only be twenty lines of code, but it's
sixty lines of code that isn't in the OS.

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
	2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus