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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: RE: Amiga 1.4 Wish List
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Date: 11 Aug 89 03:06:53 GMT
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in Article Aug 9, 1989 MessageID: 16163@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU
Vince Lee writes...
> What I want to see is auto-shrinking of icons in interlace...

I agree with you here, but.....

>One of the biggest problems with the Amiga is that most of the developers
>I know have absolutly NO artistic talent.  The AMiga TOPAZ font and the
>"insert workbench" hand....what most people see is the incredibley cheezy-
>looking workbench with its c64-looking icons.  When they compare this with
>with the sleek, professional-looking Mac....no wonder Amiga's penetration
>into the business market is near nill.

Whoa Vic, are we comparing the Amiga's workbench to the Mac's?

And as far as the Business World, how come the PC's CHEEZE LOOKING UI is not
on you *hit list? Nor is MicroSofts, nor SUN's nor X nor anything but Amy's!

There is form and function and then there is cute and constraining.  When the
Mac first came out it was considered cute because the art in its GUI was
considered nonfunctional and thus a waste of CPU horses.  As far as flexability
I consider the MAC to be far from that.  I can use ResEdit to change Icon pics
but the program is soooo buggy that in the hands of a novice (if he can get it)
is like using sweating dynamite! (pun on the MAC BOMB!)

OTHER STUFF
1) CBM may have been rushed to get the first Amigas to market.
2) If workbench had started life too cute then Apple may have sued CBM
3) Time's a wastin', things a' changin', quit complain' and do somthin'
constructive rather than GRIPE!  ;-)

Flexably Later,
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John Preston    Preston Enterprises   Pensacola Fl (904)9682232 CBM DEV
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