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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Time is of the essence on IPC.
Message-ID: <1571@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 88 02:23:47 GMT
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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One of the things that bothers me about the Amiga (and the 
guy who dumped his amiga for a Mac II) is that we tend to spend 
a lot of time on basic mechanisms while apple folks get to build
stuff like Hypercard. Hypercard, like it or not (and i don't, really) is
a significant innovation. Don't believe me? Read comp.sys.mac.hypercard
and see what they're doing, and then think about doing the same things,
*in the same amount of time*, on the amiga. I still feel that the amiga
is potentially much better, and is much better in certain areas (like in
all the things i'm interested in) but we have got to get off the ground
in certain areas, and IPC is one.
   I really admire Bill Hawe's willingness to release the headers for 
AREXX. From what i have seen AREXX has been used to build real things
involving real programs (ask Tom Rokicki). Some real nice sketches 
of IPC systems have been outlined here, but AREXX is real ... and i think
we should concentrate on building systems using something that works,
not trying to create another thing that works too, but that some of 
us might like better than AREXX. In other words we need people 
working on SYSTEMS using what we have, not continuing to build foundations.
   Just a thought. Now i gotta find some money to buy AREXX ...
-- 
ron (rminnich@udel.edu)