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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 15:24:51 GMT
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From article <1991Jun22.213406.13336@neon.Stanford.EDU>, by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
>   I assume there are lots of good points to back up that assertion.

There are, but there's no point.  It's like you trying to convince me
to buy an IBM, even though my amiga gives me everything I need, and
what it doesn't, I get from the Mac IIcx sitting next to it.  It's
pointless, and it's pretty well based on tastes...

>   I would guess most power users will find out as soon as they start
> using System 7, if they bother to look at the Hints and Tips in various
> magazines, online forums etc.  ResEdit has always been one of the
> primary tools in any power user's repertoire.

Does ResEdit come with the OS?  :)  Still sounds like a way of getting
around something the OS has set up.  If it was meant to do it, it
would do it.  "Fixing" the program with ResEdit is....  well, a
kludge.  But once again, that's my opinion shining through.

>>That's like striving to be average instead of excellent, isn't it?
> 
>   I don't think so.  In fact, if you look at many of the great ideas, they're
> great because they combine two or more disparate approaches into a single
> combination which has the good features of both, but eliminates the bad.

Which?  And many great ideas come from taking theory and working it
into something that works in the real-world...  some things are just
not possible except on paper...

Greg

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