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From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Interface War! was: Xerox sues Apple!!
Message-ID: <5444@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 90 03:22:07 GMT
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Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
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>Also, the Mac's system architecture allows users to tweak the GUI to their
>liking by adding INITs and the like.  No other GUI can do this so easily and
>transparently.
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>

     When I boot up my system, I modify the GUI by adding a mouse accelerator,
screen blanker, and sometimes a custom menu-bar in addition to the standard
ones.  If I'm in the mood, I can add a color backdrop, change the screen
setup, or add any number of clocks, iconified windows, etc.
	 Easily.
	 Transparently.
	 I do this on my Amiga at home and, at times, on the Suns I use at
school.  All it takes is an extra line or two in my startup-sequence (Amiga)
or .login (sun).
	 I may well be wrong about this but I was under the impression that the
Mac was actually very difficult to do things like this with because of a rather
strict OS and lack of things like batch files.
	 The Mac definitely has the edge on Ami for the power of its GUI, as well
as the very standardized user interface.  Version 1.4 of the Amiga OS will
(hopefully!) solve some of the weaknesses of the current workbench, and the
inclusion of a standard 'asl.library' shared library containing code for
menus, requesters, etc, will introduce a set of standard menu/requester/etc
items to help make things more standardized.  (Programmers will not be
_required_ to use asl.library, but their lives will be a helluvalot easier
if they do :-)

	 I'm just depressed that the other day I saw a complete A2500 system
on sale for the same price I paid for my 2000 system only a few months ago...
:-(


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