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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Programming MS-Windows vs. Amiga (Re: resource tracking)
Message-ID: <5223@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 14:19:47 GMT
References: <1165@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <5214@sugar.hackercorp.com> <23118@usc.edu> <5219@sugar.hackercorp.com> <23157@usc.edu>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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> Well, Hello World in X with the Toolkit is about 10 lines of code and data.

And links to at least a 300K executable, just for the equivalent of the Amiga
console device. I'd call that cheating. How about doing it with Xlib?

> Try to do the same with the Amiga and take a look at the result.

Probably a couple of lines with Supercard, and that's not that big.
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