Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:33320 rec.arts.wobegon:407 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!unicads!les From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.arts.wobegon Subject: Re: System Wars Message-ID: <420@unicads.UUCP> Date: 5 May 89 16:06:44 GMT References: <24036@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: Unicad Boulder, CO Lines: 23 In article kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: > Amiga Workbench: Nice multitasking, but this is the least user friendly > windowing system I've seen. You can't get by without the CLI. Nice and i agree. > fast because of the BlT, though. The displays are real ugly. In general > the graphics are not as good as they could be because of the poor quality > of the monitors used on most amiga systems. true, but i got a computer and a C compiler/debugger/editor/etc and a color monitor and enought ram to run it all ala ramdisk for $1300. so let's not be comparing salmon eggs to caviar w/o acknowledging as much. > >Ahh, so Workbench is supposed to be the windowing system? Hmmm. (I >can't say much on that, 'cause I used Workbench exactly once before >retreating to the CLI someone'd already customized for me.) ^^^ (this is the shell, for non-amigoids, "cmd line i/f") yes, and ran one in each window while another window is slowly accumulating ray traced pixels and another is panning around over a pixmap larger than the window while having graphics drawn in it. sorry to contribute to any net-war. I see the Ameager like the Apple][ of the '80s, like a Volkscomputer. moLester