Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 from ihnp4 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site chinet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!chinet!bdw From: bdw@chinet.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Questions from an expectant Amiga buyer Message-ID: <365@chinet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 12:04:27 EST Article-I.D.: chinet.365 Posted: Sun Feb 23 12:04:27 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 21:06:03 EST Reply-To: bdw@chinet.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Organization: The Computer Connection Lines: 24 I'm looking to buy myself an Amiga sometime soon (as soon as possible), and am looking for suggestions/advice/whatever from those brave souls who have gone before me. :-) A few specific questions: 1: It seems quite clear to me that I will not be able to get along without a C compiler. Which would you net.beings recommend -- MANX or Lattice? 2: What various sources for the Amiga have been posted in the past? I have the Hack sources, and will be using them -- but I have also heard of postings of MicroEmacs and AmigaTerm... anything ELSE? 3: Anything else that I won't be able to get along without? Thanks in advance... -- Bill Wisner / The Computer Connection I'm a very irrespon- UUCP: ..ihnp4!chinet!bdw sible person. I could CIS: 76474,1213 care less about the WOPR: "root" opinions expressed in USNail: 6290 Highway 44 the preceding message. Star, ID 83669 "Let us give praise and thanks to the almighty, all-powerful Randy Suess for making this message possible. Yea." [The book of Wisner, Chapter 3, Verse 17]