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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 05:22:59 EDT
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In article <2731@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes:
>
>Commodore and Apple are both in business to sell computers,
>not to make nerdy computer geeks like us happy.  I think if

US Kimasabbee ? Geek for yourself. :-)

>cannot truthfully say they don't envy the Mac's enormous
>toolbox that allows for fantastic control and a standardized
>user interface.

Not impressed. Like mine better. Subjective.

>They must envy its fonts,

We have a program that converts Mac to Amiga fonts. Sure is
nice of you Mac folks to put fonts on BBS's throughout the
country for us. Thanks again.

>its desk
>accessories,

Got more desk accessories than desk.

>its clipboard, 

Hey! C'mon! We have clipboards. They just dont work, or nobody can
figure them out or something. Serious information passing on 
Amiga takes place through IFF files. We dont pass text, we pass
images.

>and its large application base.

All black and white. :-)  (oh yeah, and dithered gray scale)

>They must envy the
>fantastically generalized system design which allows the
>computer to use kanji scripts as easily as Roman, and have kanji
>appear effortlessly in menus, dialog boxes, everywhere. 

This is nice.

>And starting this month they're going to envy Hypercard. 

And according to infoworld, coming for PC's, Ataris, and Amigas. A
version for Mike Meyers watch is also planned.

>When was the last time you saw an ad claiming
>the Amiga had "a message-passing multi-tasking kernel with
>dynamic memory allocation among tasks?"

Alright you clowns. Who leaked C='s new commercials ?

>David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU

Yours in 68000'dem,


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