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From: bds@mtgzz.UUCP (b.d.szablak)
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Subject: Amiga questions
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 18:53:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 18:53:23 1985
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From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky)
I want to thank Eric Lavitsky for offering to answer questions on the
Amiga (you may regret it). I will try to make my questions to the point:

What is your configuration?

What graphics primitives are supported in hardware, and which in software
(such as lines, circles, points, area-fill, etc.)?

What sound primitives are supported?

Assuming you have the C compiler, how complete are the standard libraries?

Are there any inter-process communication facilities (pipes et. al.)?

Describe any screen orientated text and/or graphics (sound?) editors.

Is there a debugger?

Is there a utility to make disk copies on a single disk drive system?

Is there any file transfer utilities (XMODEM etc.)?

How long does it take to boot?

How long does it take to compile: main(){printf("hello world\n");} ?

How long does it take to fill a 1/2 screen circle, triangle, and box
in 640x400, 640x200, and 320x200 modes (do it a hundred times).

How long does it take to invoke an editor on a 1-10k byte file and save
it?

Is the software copy-protected, or are there any provisions for creating
copy-protected software (i.e. encoded serial #)?

and much, much, more...