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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Workbench
Message-ID: <4129@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 13:56:11 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4129
Posted: Wed Dec 31 13:56:11 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 04:00:28 EST
References: <210@dragon.tc.fluke.COM> <254@unirot.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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Summary: If a 3-year-old can use it, somebody did something right!

In article <254@unirot.UUCP>, Mark Carroll (carroll@unirot.UUCP) writes:

> . . . I think workbench is horrible. Its slow, its cumbersome, its not
> terribly flexible, its a pain the neck. My use of WOrkbench is opening
> the CLI on the workbench disk at work. I cannot STAND all those miserable
> .info files.. they're handled pretty poorly.  . . .

The flip side is that my 3-1/2-year-old son can start up SpeechToy *BY*
*HIMSELF*, thanks to the Workbench!  (He knows which disk is Kickstart,
which is Workbench, and which is the Games disk with SpeechToy on it, so
he can go from power off to "This is Amiga speaking." without help.)

All you wonderful people at Commodore, please listen to these guys, but
not *too* closely!  If you can improve performance, fine -- but whatever
you do, don't sacrifice ease of use!!!

					Steve Rice

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