Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!simvax.labmed.umn.edu!davidli From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source! Message-ID: <1991Jun24.234414.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 23:44:14 GMT Article-I.D.: simvax.1991Jun24.234414.1 References: <30289@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun25.010418.2955@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Organization: Flying Taoist Graphics Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: simvax.labmed.umn.edu Redirected to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, where this who thread belongs. In article <1991Jun25.010418.2955@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>, peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <30289@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: >> In all my reading and experience with the Amiga, I have yet to hear one >> complaint about "severe MIDI timing problems". > > There were a bunch of them back when Deluxe Music Construction Set and > SoundScape first came out. It seems they did a poor job of handling timing > and some folks interpreted that as being an Amiga problem. > > Like when the first TOS ROM upgrade came out and broke a bunch of poorly > written terminal emulators. Or when the first >1M Macs came out and > Microsoft's software started breaking. Or the TSR WARS on the IBM-PC. > > Computers are always getting bad reps from application software. > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' . > 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" -- David Paschall-Zimbel davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu