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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Initial Opinion of Amiga
Message-ID: <335@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Nov-86 15:16:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 16 15:16:39 1986
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In article <939@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I recently received an Amiga on loan from a computer book
>publishing company in order to test programs from a new
>Amiga book I am doing a technical review of. I'm doing
>the review even though I told them that I don't know anything
>about Amiga's.
>
>Anyway, I started this project with an open mind. Now, after
>about 2 weeks of experience on the Amiga I thought I'd give
>an accessment of the Amiga from the point of view of an experienced
>computer programmer, although one without any Amiga experience or
>knowledge.
>

Boy, oh boy.  I know you're going to get a lot of replies/followups
from this one.  Let me be among the first.

I agree with a lot of your complaints.  It would be nice if the
Amiga worked like the older systems that we're used to.  I'd like
to see ^S/^Q, unix style wild cards, and unix style PATH names.
I'm sure there are reasons why the Amiga chose to do things
differently.  Perhaps our idea of normal and standard is not
normal or standard in the origins of AmigaDOS.  In any case,
I've gotten used to using [SPACE-BAR]/[BACK-SPACE] for stop/start
control, and '#?' for '*' (AmigaDOS *does* have wild cards!).

Lots of flames to you for using CLI without having read the manual!
The workbench is for those who don't like reading manuals.  The CLI
is for those who like to get in a little deeper and don't mind
reading manuals.  Wait 'till you hear what the command is to delete
directories!

Marnix
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