From: kuch@reed.edu (Hatemonger Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:34:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec13.183416.11168
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Dec13.063021.28547@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.041029.9962@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
>>tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>>
>[Dan says the WB2.0 looks *awful*]
>
>>>Let's be fair: what screen shot are you referring to? Many of the images are
>>>either software which does not take advantage of 2.0 (1.3 hold-outs),
>>>aren't style-guide compliant, or are taken from low-resolution displays.
>>
>>>In fact, in the January issue, you'd have a hard time coming up with anything
>>>that didn't fit into the above categories. Unfortunately, most of us feel
>>>the same way you do.
>>
>>Exactly!  There is not even one wb 2.0 shot in the entire january 93 issue
>>of amigaworld.  So what in the world are you talking about?
>>
>>But then again we don't have to worry about the workbench too much.
>>Becuase we have the apps open their private screens.  
>>Myself I really don't really interact on the wb more than to open shells
>>and start apps.  All else works in the csh shell and private screens.
>
>Wow, this sort of comment REALLY points out some Amiga inadequecies:
>
>1) Apps have private screens.  This shoots to hell an enforcement of
>commonality between apps.  What a wild blend of software that designs its
>own interface.  Woo woo.

Correction:  Private Screen does not imply that a given app must have its
own UI.  It means that other apps can't open windows on the private screen
of an application.  Your comment is content-free because you have the wrong
definition for private screen.

>
>2) It seems beyond me that Amigaworld, *AMIGA*World, wouldn't have shots of the
>Workbench.  Think about it.  What a farce that the Amiga GUI is so irrelevant,
>being some kind of program loader, that it isn't touted.  Sheesh.  You can't
>do that with Windows or OS/2.  The basic structure of windows are all the same.
>You can't help but see the basic of Windows/OS/2 by looking at screen shots of
>Windows or OS/2 screen shots.

Take it up with AmigaWorld's editors...

>
>Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, hires and HI color workbenchs are worth using.  And some
>Amigans tout the BLAZING SPEED of the WB?!  Good grief! I sure would hope so,
>to lauch a program to be able to stop looking at it.
>>Martin

Dan, isn't it holiday time?  Shouldn't you be off playing some of those 
mega DOS games that the Amiga doesn't have?

>
>
>-- 
>Dan Stephenson                                                das9674@usl.edu  
>"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while
>we lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
>                        -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival  


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