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From: dmak@watarts.UUCP (Derwin Mak)
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Subject: Re: Welcome!
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 09:55:06 EDT
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In response to the offer that was made, here are some questions:

1.  Could I easily interface a shugart compatible 5.25 inch diskette
    drive (80 tracks double sided) to the amiga.

2.  Will my MX80 printer work with the amiga and can I use it to print
    graphics or do I have to go out and purchase a special printer as
    with the Macintosh.

3.  How fast is the amiga (with a single process running).  I'm talking
    about computation speed, disk access speed and graphics speed.  
    Comparisons to other micros (ie IBM PC or APPLE MAC) would be
    helpful here.

4.  And now a question requiring a highly subjective response:
    How easy is it to write programs for the amiga that utilize the mouse
    icons and windows and other related user interface stuff.
    How easy is it to write programs which do not use fancy user interfaces?
    How good are the software development tools (ie assembler, C compiler,
    Pascal compiler) etc.

   Thanks.