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Subject: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
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Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 15:42:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 15:42:48 1986
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In Article <213@dione.rice.EDU>,  wert@titan.UUCP (Scott Comer) writes :

> 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

Why is this misleading? To give my windows on the Amiga the ability to
change size dynamically I include the WINDOWSIZING flag and a 
max.x and max.y size. Everything else is essentially transparent.
(I get a message if Intuition thinks I need to refresh my window
and when it arrives I just call the routine that redisplays the current
state of the window) As for the fact that the MAC way might be more 
flexible I doubt it. Since with a similar amount of effort I can 
size my windows in any way I want. 

I don't know if the point was that the Amiga was "better" because of
all this stuff, but it is easier to program window applications and
multiple window applications for. 

I suggest if you gave two equally competent programmerss the task of
vreating an application from scratch on both machines and they had
both not had any previous experience with the machine they were 
working with the Amiga programmer would be finished first. Of course
with dedicated hackers programming in their "home" environment it
would probably be a tie. 
-- 
--Chuck McManis
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