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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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In article <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes:
>>Care to give it a go Mr. System 7.0?
>
>OK.
>
>System 7.0				Amiga
>
>outline font technology standard	bitmaps or application dependent
>True type or postscript supported	outline fonts	
>by every application.

                                         (will be CG fonts soon)

>inter-application communication		copy/paste isn't even standard for
>(provides live links between docs	all apps and no IAC, not even on
>from any vendor's apps)			the horizon.

Sorry but the Amiga wins hands down     Copy/paste from CON windows is
here. Arexx blows away IAC.             standard. Also, clipboard cut
Arexx is STANDARD.                      and paste has been standard
Also, Arexx is supported by             for a long time, however
LOTS of Apps. How many Mac              not many Amiga apps use it.
App's use IAC at this
moment?
>baloon help manager provides		help screens are app specific thus
>easy, standard way to add help		the user must learn how to access
>facilities to an application		help screens in each program

                                        2.0 has a standard way of help.
                                        Press the help key over a
                                        menu item/gadte and you get
	                                a 'MENUHELP' message sent
	                                to your app. It's not great, but
                                        they are working on it. 
>file sharing at OS level standard	file sharing is possible cheaply
>allows you to publish files to		through a pd program as well as
>any user that you want to access it	commericial apps, but it is not
>					standard and does not come with the OS.
>					And no amiga networking is as simple
>					as Personal Appleshare in 7.0.

                                        There is a standard, it's called SANA.

>OS level file location facilities	PD and commercial file searching
>					utilities available

 Sorry, but the search and which
commands have been around since 
AmigaDOS 1.3.2. Try again.

>AppleScript and event manager sends	no protocal for doing this exists
>messages between apps to perform	or will exist in 2.0
>a variety of functions
       
 BZZZZZT! Thanks for playing. AmigaOS has had the abilities to send
messages to apps since day one, and Arexx (a fully complete and easy to
learn language) is part of AmigaDOS and has been around since 1987.
For instance, you can send messages from a term program to a paint
program to save a pic, and then have the term upload it,etc.

>sound manager standard 2:1 or 3:1 	???
>compression of digitized sound

                                        audio.device, SMUS and IFF 8SVX
                                        standard for 2:1 compression.
         
>communication toolbox managages		vendors must write their own code
>serial, appletalk, ethernet		to manage these

                                        Preferences
                                        (it's lame, but it's standard)
>
>This is not all-inclusive but includes most of the new features.  Anyone
>more knowledgeable on Amiga OS 2.0 feel free to correct my amiga comments.


  To the Amiga's side, let's add Commodities Exchange, a standardized
way to manage the input streams on the Amiga so screen blankers,
input enhancers, and INIT style stuff isn't load order dependent.
Let's also mention the Amiga's built in speech, which has been improved.

Seriously, Apple's inter-process communication falls far short
of Arexx on the Amiga, and 7.0's slowness and memory hogging
makes it look like a turtle compared the AmigaOS. On top of that,
Apple still hasn't standardized a method for resident/pure code sharing
has it? For instance, I can make a C compiler resident on the
Amiga and have 2-3 compiles going at once without using
hardly any extra memory except stack and heap storage. Multifinder
still requires memory 'partitioning' doesn't it?

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