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From: rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: owning an Amiga and an ST (really what A real PC is to me)
Message-ID: <2013@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 12:03:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 12:03:45 1987
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Reply-To: rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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Keywords: sun amiga

Yeah I agree; I get to use a Sun 2/50 (gack!) at work.  It is not
nearly as good a machine as my A500 -- the user interface is not as
good, not *nearly* as flexible, and it swallows half a meg of disk
space for every program it's linked with.  And it's shockingly slow
compared to the Amiga.  When I grab a word with the mouse, I have to
*wait* to see if I grabbed the right word -- the selection and repaint
take perceptible time.

The Sun has a bigger screen and NFS -- two important wins.  But I find
I'm more productive at home with my Amiga than at work with the Sun.

I'm not too sure about the benefits of NeWS, either.  It's a great
concept, but will Sun follow through?  The company has a sad history of
dropping ideas in the half-baked stage.  Is NeWS the third or fourth
user interface they've released?

And, although I've promised myself not to get a compiler for the Amiga
until my dissertation is done, the Amiga operating system is much
cleaner than SunOS.  Only natural -- SunOS is the result of a process
of accretion which started in 1976 (?).

			Roger Hayes
			rogerh@arizona.edu