Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage... Keywords: spam Message-ID: <7583@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:28:02 GMT References: <3352@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4031@cps3xx.UUCP> <7559@cbmvax.UUCP> <5067@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <439@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 Not really wanting to start a flame war, but... In article <439@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >The lack of windowing is less important on a system that itself supports >windows, since you can use multiple system windows as a substitute. Cut >and paste is supported in vi in a way painful to vi-novices and less >elegant than e.g. emacs, yet again seems perfectly convenient when it >happens by conditioned reflex. BTW, what do VI users do when they want to cut and paste _between_ files?? I never though of that before; it must be a pain. Editors are a religous issue, anyone who wants to flame about them go to alt.computers.religion, please. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"