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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in cinema (again)
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Date: 13 Sep 88 11:29:15 GMT
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In article <138@tityus.UUCP> jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) writes:
>	This is TRUE. I look at the calendar and note that I finally came to
>this conclusion a year ago, with *Many* other points to add about CBM. Forget
well, that's as may be. I haven't given up yet and my first buy was in 
Nov. 85, and boy was that a grim time. It looked very much like C= was
gonna go belly up. 
   You have to keep in mind, when someone (or corporation) is near 
death, they do some strange things. Add to this the fact that American
corporations do lots of strange things to begin with, and you are 
in for a strange time. 
   One thing that still kills me is that people look at the machine, 
and say 'ah, 200 lines, its obsolete'. They don't even THINK about 
software, and how hard it is to get a good multi-tasking kernel DONE RIGHT,
which the Amiga folks did. You read the Bandito who just says 'well,
they'll throw multitasking on the Apple IIGS and its all over for the Amiga!'
and people BELIEVE it. incredible. Take a look at Multifinder, for example.
I told some friends the story about how Microsoft windows blew a product
development cycle by a year  because while you can run lots of tasks, you
can only run ONE copy of any ONE program if you are using extended
memory. They said, 'oh yeah, you can't do that on a MAC II either- 
but its ok 'cause the programs all handle multiple files anyway'. Is this
sick or what? After 3 years only Amiga still knows how to do multitasking 
right!
   Sorry you got burned, Jim. I gather you were the author of Infominder?
Did you know you are still an amiga developer? Your signature says
it all:
X Windows Developer
Thanks to Dale Luck, we may see your stuff soon on the Amiga.
Once we have X windows, we have other developers too:
HP, Sony, DEC, IBM, all the Athena guys, ..., its gonna be nice.
ron