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From: dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM Advertising (Was: Re: I've had it with CBM!)
Message-ID: <622@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 07:02:24 GMT
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In article <22008@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad'
Adams) writes:
>In article <609@dsoft.UUCP> dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
>>Despite have a graphic interface, it's harder to learn to use an
>>Amiga than it is to learn how to use an IBM.
>
>Ok, EVERYONE.  Please note this was Mr. Heffernan's humble personal opinion!
>Puh-lease don't hit that F key and start a flame-fest that would make the
>sun look like a fire-crackers.  
>
>Mr. Heffernan,
>
>Puh-lease do not encourage a flame fest by posting such utterly biased 
>personal opinions as this.
>--
>John  M.  Adams    --*--    Professional Student on the six-year plan!     //
>Internet:  jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu   -or-   vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu \\ //
>"Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory." Calvin & Hobbs  \X/

	Um, I don't see what's so "utterly biased" about that statement, though
it is of course a personal opinion.  I have an Amiga, which I like very much,
and I sell and use IBM's at work, which I really don't care for.

	I'm hardly an expert with either type of machine, but I've learned my
way around both operating systems.  The Amiga's is more complicated, and that 
makes it harder to use, IMHO, than a PC.  This may be due to the fact that,
IMHO, using a PC is like driving a car and using an Amiga is more like flying
a jet, but that wasn't the question.  I've seen people who knew how to use
Clones flounder about when given an Amiga until someone showed them how to
use it.

	The main stumbling blocks are the lack of documentation- are they 
*still* shipping the machine without AmigaDOS manuals?- and the fact that the
machine has both a command line and a W.I.M.P. :-) interface, and you have
to learn when you can just do things from the Workbench, and how, and when you
have to use the CLI/Shell to do something, and how.  I'm now holding classes
at a local Software ETC, showing people just those things.  It is NOT all 
point and click like a Macintosh (and Mac owners have the worst time- the Amy
looks enough like a Mac to let them think they know what they're doing.)

	Finally, I must have seen a few hundred messages go by since I said
that, and nobody said anything about it until you felt it necessary to tell us
NOT to start a flame war.  Shouldn't that have gone in mail?  I know this 
should have, but I'm one of the wretched refuse without access to a smart 
mailer.



	
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