Path: utzoo!censor!becker!graham!chris
From: chris@graham.UUCP (Chris Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Learning Curve(was RE:CBM Advertising)
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Date: 3 Feb 90 16:22:10 GMT
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void Flame()
{ /*
  Anyone who says the Amiga is harder to learn than the IBM is obviously
wacked in the head.  Even suppose the Amiga didn't have Workbench.
The Amiga CLI commands are easier to use because they're more advanced
so you don't need any distinctions as between COPY and XCOPY in MS-DOS.
On the contrary, it's far harder to learn DOS because if its sheer
primitiveness.
 
  Moreover, there are online help programs available in the Amiga Shareware
and PD community.  And, if you use the ARP commands, there is full online
documentation.  I don't see anything like that in the DOS world (although
I don't delve that much into that kingdom of stone knives and bearskins).
*/ }

  Perhaps the original poster meant that it is harder to learn *mastery* of
the Amiga than *mastery* of MS-DOS, then I suppose some agreement is in
order.  But but it is easier to learn the same facility in Amiga CLI than
in the DOS shell.  The problem for DOS users is that the same facility does
not exist in MS-DOS as in AmigaDOS as the user becomes more proficient.
Mastery of AmigaDOS is far more powerful than mastery of MS-DOS.