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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 27 Jun 91 15:48:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.033737.19606@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>In article <1991Jun27.005059.11450@neon.Stanford.EDU>, espie@ibis.Stanford.EDU (Marc Espie) writes:
>> and since we can't push windows off the screen (we could use that), 
>> this helps A LOT in uncluttering
>> your workspace. IMHO, this is even better in most cases. It takes me much less
>> time to flip through several screens than to rearrange window 
>> their own screens.
>For once, a Mac vs Amiga discussion is not turning into another
>silly "my computer is better than yours war". Other than the
>feature of being able to have different video attributes on
>each screen, is this really so much different from the Mac
>feature of being able to selectively hide applications (in
>System 7)?

Great, isn't it?  The fanatics on both the Amiga and the Mac side have
managed to keep from foaming at the mouth.  <grin>

Actually, Philip, it's quite different.  Imagine your standard 640 x
480 Macintosh screen.  Now, add another button to the mouse that is
attached to the Mac that is attached to the screen in your
imagination.  <grin>

By clicking with this new button on a gadget at the far right of the
menubar (looks like 2 sheets of paper, one half-covering the other),
you get a whole new screen.  And if you click-and-drag the menubar
with that new button, the screen slides away to expose part of the
other screen.

Programs can take up an entire screen for themselves, or they can just
run in a window.

Admittedly, you get the same "functionality" of screen-flipping with
the Hide feature in System 7.  But the multiple virtual screens
provide more apparent room.  It's hard to quantify, but it is my
opinion (as someone who's used both Macs and Amigas) that being able
to flip or drag "virtual" screens is more useful than app hiding.  I
mean, let's be honest here.  I know -I'd- rather have more screen
space - virtual -or- real.

Hey, to the folks who were talking about AmigaDOS 2.0 - is that thing
out of beta yet?  I saw a beta about a year ago, and was -very-
impressed.  It was supposed to out RSN back then... :-(

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Jim Gaynor - AgVAX System Manager - Academic Computing - Ohio State University
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