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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neophyte Revisited
Message-ID: <2621@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 21:13:22 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <10272@ihlpb.ATT.COM>, Michael Rios writes:

. First, let me thank everyone for giving advice to a true-blue new user.  I
. have saved the output and will reread it over the weekend, adding to my wish
. list.
. 
. Next, some questions and comments from a new kid on the block:
. 
. 	- I'm getting sick of one drive.  Swapping is getting on my nerves
. 	  already.  I'm also tired of error 103 appearing.  What's more

  I got sick of one drive after having a 256K Amiga + one drive for
about 30 minutes.  The day I bought it, I went back and got 256K more
memory and a second drive!

. 	  important to a happy system?  Another drive (hard or floppy)?
. 	  More memory (remember, this is a 500)?

  Well, it depends upon what you'll use the Amiga for.  Oh, look below!
. 
. 	  To make this question easier to answer, I'll say that this was
. 	  originally meant to be a game machine for me, but will probably
. 	  open out into a C development machine and a terminal to connect
. 	  to work (Handshake is such a neat program!).  Games will probably
. 	  be really high on my list, though.

  Ah, that's better ;-).  Hey, that's exactly what my Amiga gets to do.
When it's not the rainy season around here (see .sig below...), 
I like to fool around with C on my machine, and I use a modem to connect
to Usenet at work.  Also, I've always been a video game addict.

  So, I'd recommend more memory.  Like 2.5 M more, minimum.  With 2.5M,
I can load Lattice C 5.02, along with selected utilities like CodeProbe,
grep, make, etc. and have plenty of room for source code and compiled
executables.  (Or, I can load all of SideWinder into RAM, and not
have to wait for disk access between levels ;-)

. 
. 	- Is there any reason to even consider purchasing Commodore's
. 	  modem over any other?  Hayes compatable, right?

 ?????  I have an Avatex, or something like that.
. 
. 	- Who really needs CLI??  Maybe this attitude will change once I
. 	  get the hang of it (and another drive?).  Books and gurus seem

  I can't imagine any Amiga whose owner considers his machine a 
"C development machine" that uses workbench all the time.

. 	  to be the way to go here.  Any good recommendations for a book
. 	  geared towards the experienced UNIX hack on learing CLI?

  Well, it depends upon what you mean by gurus ;-).  Really, you should
check out a PD shell that is somewhat csh compatible.  I use the Cshell
written by Matt Dillon, and enhanced by numerous others.  When I use
the csh on the Amiga, I can pretend I'm at work on my Sun 3/60.

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~ David Geary, Boeing Aerospace, Seattle                 ~ 
~ "I wish I lived where it *only* rains 364 days a year" ~
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