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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.224150.18440@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 22:41:50 GMT
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In article <126@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>"So you are saying the simple fact that the clipboard
>isn't used means that it sucks? Well then, the Amiga sucks. The
>Amiga isn't used much in the U.S., so it must be terrible."
> 
>Hmmmm. Okay, I guess I can agree with that. :-)
> 
>Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I'm a Mac fanatic. Although I consider Macs
>generally superior, the Amiga does have some very interesting points. The
>chipset must have been incredible in its day. The kernel still is, not in
>features (I hate Amiga users that chant "Pre-emptive multitasking"), but
>in efficiency. Now just imagine a Mac with that kernel...(Sculley calling
>his lawyers)

  The features are the better part about the "kernel" (otherwise
know as exec.library). Some features that Mac has been missing
for a long time are things like PutMsg()/GetMsg()/Signal(), the ability to
do interprocess communication which it only recently got. Or what about
re-executable/re-entrable/sharable libraries/devices which get loaded
dynamically on demand. The efficiency is in the features. 


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