Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ST PROGRAMMING Message-ID: <28694@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 06:07:44 GMT References: <3009@sugar.uu.net> <36@raider.MFEE.TN.US> <3028@sugar.uu.net> <2231@bucsb.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 35 In article <2231@bucsb.UUCP> crewman@bucsb.UUCP writes: >In article <3028@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In article <36@raider.MFEE.TN.US>, dana.holt@raider.MFEE.TN.US seems to [lotsa stuff tossed out] >>> 'Amiga!? What the hell is an Amiga?' >> >>Simply the only personal computer on the market with a modern operating system >>as the standard user environment. >> > >This must be a joke. I have an Amiga, an ST, and I use Macs and PC's at work, >among others, and I have come to realize this: I prefer *ancient* UNIX on my >Sun 3/50 at work to the toy OS on my Amiga anyday! I even like the ST OS >better than the Amiga's. It's simple, it has all the graphics one needs, and >it's compatible with MS/DOS. What the hell is a modern operating system? How >long does an OS stay modern? > > -- JJS I doubt it was meant to be a joke, but rather a harmless exaggeration. I myself have an Amiga and a Kaypro, and use Macs and Suns at work and have used PCs a lot in the past. Whether AmigaDOS is modern is debateable, and, all-in-all I probably do prefer Unix to AmigaDOS, but my Amiga multitasks, which is something VERY important to me that Mac and ST afficionados can't claim for their machines, and PC people couldn't claim until fairly recently (I really am not up-to-date with MS-DOS developments :-). Also, the Amiga gives me a whole lot more flexibility than the Mac, simply by virtue of the CLI. AmigaDOS isn't perfect, and some people may not like it, but it is a fairly unique offering on an affordable machine. -- Jeff