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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS (What you want _requires_ moving closer to the Amiga...)
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Date: 12 Mar 90 05:27:37 GMT
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In article <1990Mar9.205605.2836@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

>philip.mcdunnough@canremote.uucp (PHILIP MCDUNNOUGH) writes:

>The Amiga is a serious threat to the market you (and I) desire for the GS,
>because if they ever get any decent productivity software for it then we
>will be in deep trouble. But Appleworks GS with a blitter-enhanced desktop

Extremely SERIOUS!  The Amiga is in my opinion (that of a die-hard
Apple//er) to be the NEW hacker's machine (actually, has been for
awhile).  I've got friends working on TCP/IP networking stuff, and all
kinds of groovy stuff for the Amiga. How about this: there is a program
called DNET out for the Amiga (public domain I believe) that allows one
to mount Unix as a filesystem on the Amiga!!!!  So in otherwords, he can
edit a file on Unix using software on his Amiga!  Copy/move/etc files
around between his Amiga and the Unix system.  Imagine having your local
Unix computer as a volume on GSOS or even plain ProDOS and jumping into
Appleworks/etc to do all your file-editing on Unix??  I for one wouldn't
find that to be too inconvient.  Talk about a little bit of productivity
software!  Where do you see this kind of innovation and development for
the Apple//?  Exactly where it is, on the Amiga.  Sigh...  Each day the
Amiga (and NeXT for that matter) look better and better to me and my
beloved IIgs looks like an aging relic.

It doesn't have to be this way tho!  Not with REAL SUPPORT, development,
etc. from Apple.

-k