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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Development (was Re: AllocMem() with 16-bit Manx)
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 15:23:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 15:23:50 1987
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Summary: An AMIGA port of GEM?

> This will probably be less true as soon as the Amiga port of GEM is
> available.

Isn't this rather like porting curses to the Mac? I mean, Intuition
is the standard user interface on the Amiga... and it's important to
stick to it. Now, a subroutine library that allows you to make GEM
calls but uses Intuition... that I could see. But sticking the GEM
user interface on the users is going to (1) hurt sales to non-naive
users, and (2) hurt the naive users who buy the package anyway.
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