From: das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Move
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:41:47 GMT

In article <93022.201856MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.162023.19198@usl.edu>, das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson
>Daniel A) says:
>
>>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.
>>:-)
>
>cd work:games/flashback

Huh?  What's this for?

>Now, you were saying? :-) And gee, at least OUR game companies don't
>use their customers to beta-test...

What are you talking about?  You mean... patches to some games?  Excuse me,
but I don't would mind.  Would you, if these games were even available
for the Amiga?

>>>|> >Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate who hates using the retard slash
>>>|>
>>>|> 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.
>
>Correction: the one last thing, in a long, long line of things. :-)

Personally, I prefer the IBM PS/2 keyboards, but it's no BIG DEAL!
After all the lousy terminals I have been on, having the \ key somewhere 
else is trivial. It is not like you have to hunt for the ENTER key like on 
some awful terminals.

>>REALLY, it ain't so bad!
>
>Actually it is. If it was always in one place it wouldn't be so bad,
>since at least one could get used to it. But the damn thing MIGRATES.
>It's almost as bad as the bloody stupid switching of CAPS-LOCK and CTRL
>on this PS/2 keyboard I'm typing on. (Yeah, like we use CAPS LOCK more than
>CTRL... especially since, this being a genuine IBM PC, it crashes all the
>time so I have to keep reaching for CTRL-ALT-DEL... :-) )

Heh heh.

Actually, do AMigans only ahve one CTRL key?  I like have dual
Alt and and CTRL... just wondering.  Funny that, it bothers me when I hit the
Cap Lock key onb the ELC keyboards at school.. wanting the CTRL key...

So you see, it depends.

>>>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..
>>>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'??
>
>Not for several years. My A3000 with 2.04 never crashes. Well, to be fair,
>occasionally when using old and/or buggy programs it pops up a Recoverable
>Alert, or a system failure requester; in both these cases you get dropped
>back to the system to save your work or do whatever you like. In fact, with
>a system failure requester you can usually just shove the darn thing to the
>back and keep working with no trouble whatsoever. Even these two events are
>VERY rare, and sudden data-losing type crashes NEVER.

That's nice.  So Amigans have storage protection?  A crashed app doesn't
write all over other files, or lose them?  This zappewd me once under Windows.
OS/2 has storage protection, though.

>>OS/2, the OS we WERE talking about, doens't have any 640K barrier.  And
>
>Actually, Dan, we WERE talking about MSDOS. Yes, scraggly old MSDOS. You
>don't have to defend it; it's okay. You don't see me trying to defend
>Workbench 1.0, do you? And MS-DOS 5.0 is far worse in design than even THAT...

Nope.  You think I was talking about MSDOS when I write about
directories like 'D:\Games\Falcon3.0 which Amigans ain't got'?
It was OS/2.

MSDOS is old, and archaic, but still plays the best RPGs and Flight/Fighter
Sims in the private world.

>cd "Work:Games/Elite II - Frontier"
>frontier

:-)

>[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
-- 
Dan Stephenson   das9674@usl.edu
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