From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Move
Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:30:25 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <1993Jan22.162023.19198@usl.edu> das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
:In article <wjk3rn=@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
:>In article <1993Jan21.052858.23136@usl.edu>, das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
:>
:>|> >That brings up something else: Does OS/2 still use the retard slash for
:>|> >directories or have the OS folks come to their senses?  That one mistake
:>|> >by Microsoft is an even bigger blunder than MS-DOS itself...
:>|> 
:>|> You mean '\'?  as in C:\Games\Falcon3 and C:\Games\StuntIsl ?
:>
:>VERRRY cute, Dan. Just random choices? Why didn't you use:
:>
:>C:\Games\Lemmings 
:>
:>or 
:>
:>C:\Games\Amiga_Port_We_Pretend_We_Invented
:>
:>	... oh, sorry - that wouldn't FIT, would it???    8)
:
:Sure it would.   OS/2's HPFS allows for 255-char. filename, directories longer 
:than the one you cited. Without have to resort to underscores, I'd just
:use SPACES.  But then again, you Amigans would not KNOW about such 
:trivial niceties, would you???    8)

Sure would.  It's a jusgement call if you would rather use quotes around
the filename (if you're using spaces), or if you want to use underscore.
It's always been a part of the Amiga OS, as well as the long filenames.
Glad to see IBM just catching up.

:I COULD have cited a directory named "Falcon 3.0 which AMigans do not have"
:or one called D:\Games\Ultima Underworld  
:or one called D:\Games\Stunt Island - no Amigans apply.
:
:But I didn't, cause I've pointed this out a lot already.
::-)

And I could cite a directory called "You don't have a clue".

But I don't want to, since I've already pointed out that you don't know
what you're talking about.

:>|> Does it matter, Skip?
:>|> 
:>|> >Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate who hates using the retard slash
:>|> >skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
:>|> 
:>|> Why?
:>
:>Because it's in the SH*TTIEST location on most keyboards!
:
:Geez, it sounds like Amigans have found the one last thing  about
:PCs that they can latch onto and bash.
:
:REALLY, it ain't so bad!

:>Dan, you're one of those people who can point out problems ad nauseam (sp?) 
:>for any other machine, but fails to acknowledge even the most glaring problems
:>on his own system. PC people are, for the most part, all like that when it 
:>comes to the retard-slash (Thanx, Skip! 8D ), the 640K barrier, and a few other
:>things.
:
:Well, you Amigans are guilty, too, then.  Have you ever been told
:'don't touch that while <such and such> is active, the computer will
:crash if you do'??

No.

:OS/2, the OS we WERE talking about, doens't have any 640K barrier.  And
:what does it say for Amigas that MSDOS can run some better applications than
:an Amiga with NO 640K barrier.  Right, that there is the ol' Amiaa 
:'I might not have a hard drive or more than a meg, anyway' barrier.  Note:
:YOU sure don't point things like this out, ad nauseum.

No one has ever been able to truthfully say that one OS can run
something BETTER than another.

How about the old IBM 'I might have an incompatable soundcard or
graphics card or monitor ...'.  My point: neither IBM or Amiga is
perfect (or better), just different.  You buy a computer that does what
you want.

:>I once had my roommate get into a rabid frenzy when I commented on my surprise
:>that Falcon 3.0 came on 5.25" disks...
:>
:>"What do you mean!?!? Oh, you think just because the Amiga uses 3.5", they're
:>better? You're so stupid Frank!"
:>
:>I mean, it's widely accepted that 3.5" disks are "better" - they hold more,
:>they're infinitely more durable, the disk surface is better protected, etc.
:>In addition, every PC/clone sold since about 1990 has come equipped with a
:>3.5" floppy drive - usually HD, one of the Amiga's definite shortcomings - so
:>"advocating" 3.5" disks is in no way advocating the Amiga per se...

:What, you'd prefer an 3.5" 880K floppy disk drive and software over
:a 5.25" FD with all your software available in that size?

:Yes, they are more durable.

:Your rommie overreacted.... wonder why.  Could it be that he rooms
:with 'Doc Ami'?
::-)
:
:
:>Some people are so paranoid...

:Yeah, silly, eh?
:
:>=======Amiuser============Frank R. Dana, Jr.============Doc Ami=======     
:-- 
:Dan Stephenson   das9674@usl.edu


	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

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