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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: My Monthly I Love My Amiga Posting
Message-ID: <3467@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Aug 88 03:56:21 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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Howdy, Wayne!

	Just today I've been having a lot of fun with my Amiga.
I'm experimenting with large (ten-inch) (:-) fonts, so I'm running
METAFONT in the background, along with some font conversion
utilities.  In the meantime, I'm reading (and now posting news),
writing letters, running TeX/preview/dvips over those letters.
I found a bug in one of my hack-type programs, so make is back
there too.  I'm also helping a novice Amiga person get up to speed
by opening up a few more windows occasionally and showing him some
things.  I can flip between and go to any window I want just by
hitting two keys, no matter what window it is.  My priorities are
set so that the interactive processes get the speed they need, and
they respond as if they were the only things in the system.  And
my background tasks are purring along merrily.  Of course, ARexx is
smoothing all the interactions between the programs I need.  When
I can get this kind of environment with a Mac II, I'll buy one.
But I've used the puppies, and I'm happily back to my Amiga.

Don't get confused about a pile of hardware trying to be a Mac II.
The B2000 was designed specifically to accept the 68020 and flicker-
fixer boards; they are not hacks in any way.  Rather, they are a
very laudable mechanism Commodore has used to make the 2000 accessible
to a wider audience.

I don't want to start any more wars; I just want to say that this
Amiga is the best thing I've ever used.  Back to your regular
programming.

-tom