Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!aer From: aer@alice.UucP (y) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Another Amiga reaction Message-ID: <4353@alice.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 22:59:48 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4353 Posted: Fri Sep 20 22:59:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 04:54:53 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 40 I have gone into the wilderness of computer stores and seen the Amiga. I'm no electrical engineer, so I can give a more "userly" reaction to the Amiga, if you feel it's worth anything. But first, the store had no one with Amiga experience, no manuals, and the only software was the kickstart disk and the demo disk. No mouse either, so I was stuck in the VERY MS-DOS like commandline interpreter. Damn, how the commandline interpreter worked like an IBM or workalike. Same dumb, hard to use command structure, albeit with several corrections, like DOS commands available from within the unreasonably slow ABasiC. It was preliminary software, so I expect Basic to speed up *muchlike.* 640x200 text is nothing special at all. And the way it was done, it looked like a plain old (in colorboard mode) IBM PC. They should be able to do better than that. This is surely no replacement for the Macintosh. The hardware seems better, but no one has yet outdone Apple's famed Quickdraw software. As for interlaced (400 pixel vertical resolution) graphics (on the Amiga monitor) ...well... trash it. It looked as if we were looking at the otherwise amazing digitized 640x400 mandrill through a filter of bubbly ginger ale. The flicker was badawfulyuckterrible. I hope that was only the monitor in bad shape. I hope. Anyone able to reply to that? Could someone post a complete list of: 1) What software (like user-oriented, not development systems) is available, especially word processors and the like? 2) Compatible hardware, especially printers? (Post on the net-- it's general interest.) Nothing but thanks in advance, d. Rosenberg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D. Rosenberg @ Murray Hill ATT/BTL /\ uucp: ...!ihnp4!alice!aer "My opinions are my own." (Please send mail TO DAN) ----------------------------------------------------------------------