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From: hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <2977@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 08:35:10 GMT
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Reply-To: hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
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Some things to ponder:

1. No, there isn't any thing like the Dynamic Links that will be available
in 7.0 for the Amiga. If Arexx was to be made standard equipment (On my wish
list for 1.4), then it could be done. Clipboard support would have to be
much better also.        

2. Outline fonts: This is a big step forward for apple. Fonts on the Mac
have always been handled in a manner that is non-intuitive (Huh? I've got to
have a 36 point to get a letter quality 18 point?). I would really, really
like to see this same capability on the Amiga. Font.lib?

3. When Apple says something is going to be available, it will be. Sometimes
a little belatedly (AppleFax), but it will be there. I have heard from
several sources that the Finder and other signifigant chunks are being
rewritten in C, and that the finder is much faster and smaller. 

4. I certainly hope that any there aren't still mac users out there who
think that the multifinder is multitasking. I thought this case was closed a
while back. If you, the reader, think it is, try formatting two disks
simultaneously on your Mac. 

5. The Amiga is the best mass market personal computer for doing amimation,
and probably will be for some time to come. It's all the standard equipment
it has. Something about the "lowest common denominator", as Steve Jobs put
it.

I'm speaking as an former mac "evangelist", who still thinks the Mac is
great for Desktop Publishing. It's just that I wanted pretty colors,
animation, multitasking, a flexible, configurable OS's ... well, you get the
picture.

 
 Chill.

 --hal
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