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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
Message-ID: <711@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 15:36:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.711
Posted: Tue Sep  9 15:36:01 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Sep-86 19:59:26 EDT
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> Xref: cbmvax net.micro.68k:253 net.micro.mac:2584 net.micro.amiga:2500
> 
> Also, somewhere in this issue is a box detailing all the things that one
> must do to resize a window (on a Macintosh and on an Amiga). This is
> presented as a comparison, supposedly demonstrating that the Amiga is
> better than the Macintosh because you have to do less to resize a window.
> The operation was expressed as one step for the Amiga, seven (more or
> less, I don't have it in front of me) for the Macintosh.
> 
> This is misleading, because in any application that I have ever written,
> that code appeared once and only once. Ignored is the possibility that the
> Macintosh method allows greater flexibility, etc. A casual, uninformed
> reader would conclude that the Amiga was better, and that was the intent
> of the demonstration.
> 
> This is yellow journalism to the max, and certainly worthy of The National
> Inquirer. All in the guise of objectivity.
> 
> I quit buying BYTE years ago...
> scott
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	"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
	 for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
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