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Amiga vs IBM & Mac

    19-Feb-91 17:49:55
Fm: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76702,1071
To: Allen Mitts 75216,1236
I'm a Mac developer, a PC developer, a UNIX developer, and I come home to my Amiga, so I personally became an Amiga developer. I've been programming for a dozen or so years, so really can't say I know it all, but I have come close. <grin> System 7.0 looks pretty, and simplifies some things, but makes other things (formerly simple) harder. There are a couple of neat things (From the user point of view, once applications support them. From the programmer point of view, they're a nightmare… <grin>) as well as some very necessary things (inter-application communications, for example…) but it still doesn't solve the two things I feel the Mac *really* needs the most: Real multitasking, and a CLI. Until then, I expect the Mac will remain as it has always been: Novice friendly, Experienced User Hostile. –>Steve Bennett