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From: icsu8212@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Requests from CATS for info on improvement
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Date: 12 Mar 90 19:49:40 GMT
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navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) writes:
>Recently a certain [the name escapes me] CATS official asked for information
>on how to improve the useability of the computer.
>Well, here's an interesting thought, wouldn't it be nice if we got a manual
>with the computer which tells us how to run the machine?
>I mean, yeah, you get that piece of garbage that they send you -- but what
>about shell commands?  What is all this mountlist stuff?  This needs to be
>documented standard with the computer, or else the standard [workbench] interface
>must be able to manipulate such things without the knowledge of the average
>[dumb] computer user.
>I hope that they already do this, it's been awhile since I bought my machine,
>but it's really *bad* when you get a machine without manuals that tell you
>how to run the thing... :(

I have to agree, the documentation that comes with the Amiga is at best
sorry!  I am an experienced user and a senior in Computer Science, and
found the documentation less than helpful in learning to use the Amiga.
Granted a lot of the information was their, but much more was left to
intuition (pardon the pun) than actually explained.  And a GOOD DOS manual
would be about the best improvement that I can think of.  If I had not
been convinced of the Amiga's capabilities BEFORE I bought it, I would
have definitely been convinced I had made a mistake AFTER buying it.

It is an astounding computer, let's see something done with it!
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