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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Mac/Amiga likes/dislikes
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Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 18:50:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  4 18:50:54 1986
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>     The 2nd thing I like about the MAC is the clipboard.  Unless I
>     just haven't found the thing, there is no equivalent on the
>     Amiga.  I know there is a clipboard.device but I don't know
>     what it's used for.  The closest thing to a clipboard that I
>     know of is the Notepad and that's just another word processing
>     application.


The Amiga could have a great clipboard if only the software vendors
agreed to use it for their cut and paste commands.  Since most Amiga
software today follows the standard IFF format for data, an Amiga
clipboard could store music and sound as well as graphics and text.


Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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