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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why are you selling your Amiga??
Message-ID: <2001@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 19:20:18 GMT
References: <702@oberlin.UUCP> <704@oberlin.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <704@oberlin.UUCP> cjs@oberlin.UUCP (chris seline) writes:
>But we still don't have bug free WP systems as good as MacWrite.
>As for DPaint fuck color (yes I said it) fuck color.  I want
>something I can write nice B&W reports with.  And this isn't it.

Fuck reports (yes I said it) fuck reports.  I bought the Amiga because
I was interested in video, not reports.  Ok, so all the machines should
be able to do all the functions, but I gotta tell ya, the Amiga does
reports better than the Mac does video.

>	2) Why didn't CM make the drives compatible?  So I could
>	   exchange disks -- and source easily. (yes, I'd have to
>	   convert it)

I'm glad they didn't.  The Mac drive formats are bizarre and buggy.
I've never had more flaky disks than on a Mac system, and half of the
time the !(#*&%)@#^ machine wouldn't even give them back to me without
getting out a paper clip and jabbing in that little hole.  Nonstandard
variable-speed drives.  The Amiga hardware allows IBM compatibility (720K),
(ever hear of Dos-2-Dos?) why didn't the Mac?

>	3) Why did CM insist on a single interface -- ever notice
>	   every program has a slightly different way of putting up file
>	   requestors?

So the file requesters are a little different.  BIG DEAL.  I've never
had any trouble making them work.  If they'd have been standardized, 
the FIRST one you ever saw would probably be what we're still using.
Instead, they get better with every program (generally).  Granted,
it would be handy if the OS implemented a file requester as a primitive,
but only so the developers don't *have* to do their own, NOT because
I think a standard file requester is a good idea.  You'd still probably
find applications that implement their own because they'd like to
provide better features than the built-in standard one.

Apple will pull your developers support if you determine that their 
"approved" interface is a poor fit for your particular application 
and decide to "customize" a bit (and they notice).  BAH!  Then watch 
them go off and "customize" it all to hell themselves because even 
THEY found it too limiting.  A completely standardized interface 
means a mediocre jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none interface that 
no one is allowed to improve upon.

If you're main application is producing reports, then OK, maybe you're
better off right now with a Mac (or a PC).  Don't blame C= because you
didn't investigate the issues better before you went out and bought
your system.

Sorry for any perpetuation of the MCIBTYC wars, I just hate to see people
blame a system design for a wrong decision THEY may have made.

Keith Doyle
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