Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!sunybcs!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph Piazza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud! (plus sugg. for Workbench) Message-ID: <9217@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: 11 Mar 88 16:48:38 GMT References: <318@jc3b21.UUCP> <1030@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <43704@sun.uucp> <329@jc3b21.UUCP> <3624@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph Piazza) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 33 Keywords: Workbench In article <3624@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes: >In article <329@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes: >Improving the Workbench would be a worthwhile project. Yes. >The Amiga Workbench >is now pretty much the equal of the MacFinder, When did this happen? Workbench 1.2 has been available for a decade or so while Apple releases a new System and FInder about every other week. :-) >but with intuition under the >surface and all that power under the hood, we should be able to blow the Finder >away entirely... Sounds good, but seems to me that Apple has more resources available than Commodore so the Amiga is likely to lag on some features. But then again, has anybody noticed the Mac's "extended menus" in the latest System? ;-) Flip side, joe piazza --- In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it's the other way around. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 BI: jmpiazza@sunybcs UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!jmpiazza CS: jmpiazza@cs.buffalo.edu GE: jmpiazza >Jim cthulhu@athena.mit.edu