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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Thank you C-A
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 12:49:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 12:49:42 1987
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	I don't know about you, but I need positive feedback every once in
a while to keep me going.  Now I know that all the C-A people know they're
doing a good job, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody
at C-A for providing us with an all-around well-done machine.  I mean, you
can do things with this machine that would have to be hacked into other OS's.
Intercepting keyboard strokes, fooling around with custom screens, making
homemade DOS devices, direct lockable resource access, modify any arbitrary
library vector, The ability to completely replace any module we want, the
ability to tag processes with procedures to call when 'loosing' or 'getting'
CPU (to make them compatible with other coprocessors one may eventually want
to incorporate into the multitasking)... the list goes on endlessly.

	We discuss hard disk interfacing but we never worry about integrating
them to the OS.  We throw around bit planes and varying screen sizes without
realizing the generality.  "Oh, I want to simulate a disk... letsee, do I
want to do it at the DOS level or at the TRACKDISK level?".  Memory?  
AllocMem() Boom! (This is why programs will be compatible with the 2Meg
AddrSpace chips).  If I wanted to make a remote file server the OS interface
and DOS hookup would be trivial.  Interlace, Asyncronous IO, Cooperating
Processes, and Monitor programs.	Yahoo!

	One doesn't realize how easy it is to do all those things to the
Amiga unless one compares it to other microcomputer OS's around.  I think
this plus the fact that the OS in general is very well put together and
well integrated (except for the BCPL parts of DOS, but we can ignore that), 
is why there is such fierce loyalty in the Amiga camp of which I am honored
to be a part of.  

	In my own experience, the Amiga OS hampers me the least of every other
OS I have ever used in my quest to write neato programs that do wonders at the
speed of light.

	So even If I sometimes put the Flame on high, keep in mind that the
Amiga will forever be a favorite of mine.

						-Matt