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From: NU140487@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Me)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple //GS, words from their world
Message-ID: <1981NU140487@NDSUVM1>
Date: 13 Mar 89 10:45:03 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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     All of us Amiga owners can sit back and chuckle to ourselves when we
listen to the woes of GS owners, huh? I gotta tell you, I didn't find myself
lauging. In fact, it just got me even more steamed up at how downright PISS-
POOR the OS for the Amiga actually is!!
     As an Apple // owner as well as an Amiga owner, I have had a bit of ex-
perience in using Dos 3.2, dos 3.3, pronto dos, ProDOS, Prodos 8, and a bit
of prodos 16. I have also used the Macintosh as well. Granted most of the Apple
 // dos' are a bit old and a bit slow, using my Amy seems to bring me back to
the good ol' days. The good ol' days of a 'muck-ridden' archaic dos that seems
to crawl with the vim and vigor of a box-turtle.
     In fact, I think that loading icons individually from the disk itself was
the greatest idea that CBM (or WHOEVER) could have ever come up with. And i'm
soooo glad that the disk read/write routines are slower than sh** on top of
that! If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have time to cut my fingernails or
do other work while waiting for workbench to load, a window to finish dis-
playing icons, an application to load, or a file requester to finish displaying
it's list of files. THANK YOU COMMODORE!
     Ok, ok, ok... let's face it. The drive is trash, no good. It's slow, loud,
and annoying (with it's all-too-familiar 'GRONK', and the god-auful aggrivating
'clicking' noise when its' empty, this drive gets my personal vote for "the
drive with the most personality" award). The price we have to pay for an extra
80K on a 3.5" disk, huh?
     And guess what? Everyone who buys an Amiga also buys a new friend. His
name is GURU, and he seemingly has but one purpose in his RAM-dependent (or
ROM-dependent, depending on which model) life, and that's to MEDIDATE! Why, Oh
Commodore, does my friend come to visit me when I run out of memory' or insert
a corrupt disk in the drive? Any other machine would have simply informed me of
the problem and i could have resolved it and continued with what I was doing
before. And my friend also comes to visit me at the most God-unbeknownst and
confusing times. With a friend like the Guru, who needs a Mac?
     Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying my Amiga's a pile of junk... in fact,
I believe it is one of the most powerful machines on the market today. But
come on, guys! Aren't you sick of unfounded GURU errors and an OS that has
the efficiency of (as someone from comp.sys.apple put it...) "Dos 3.2 and
integer basic"????
     No wonder serious businesses frown upon the Amiga. It's an unstable
machine in it's present state. Let's face it, a slow OS and a visit from the
Guru doesn't impress a lot of businessmen. It's time Commodore's programmers
got off their DEAD A*SES and offered us an OS that we could put our faith and
trust (and important files and documents and programs) in.

     Whew!

           Jason


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Jason Cress           |         ///   "Macintosh?? OHhhhhhh, you mean that one
Freshman, Comp Sci.   |  Amiga /// computer, ummm... a couple of years ago, uhh
North Dakota State U  |  :::  /// black and white?? Yeah, i think my brother
(NU140487@NDSUVM1)    |   :::/// still has one, sitting in his attic somewhere.
                      |    :XX/ Color? Oh yeah... he sold that one as parts to
 disclaim THIS!       |    pay it off..."
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