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From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Intel HW
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/10/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 12 Apr 92 00:50:50 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <1992Apr11.164909.1@cc.helsinki.fi> lindblad@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.175616.29902@ctr.columbia.edu>, jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>> 
>> That's *your* experience.  In *my* experience, Borland C++ 3.0 compiles
>> faster than anything I've ever seen anywhere, including the Amiga.  It
>> pre-compiles header files, so that they only have to be read once for the
>> whole project.  Is there an Amiga compiler that does this?
>
>SAS & Aztec C's both do if I remember correctly allow one to precompile header
>files. 
>	What Amiga compilers have you seen in Action?

FYI:  I've been using DICE to build a Sega Genesis cart.  Total time to compile,
link, and make a ROMable file is about 15 seconds for the entire project, which
includes 2 large assembly files with a few hundred incbin's.  To compile and link
a single .c file is under 3 seconds (includes ROMable output file).  This has to
compare equally, if not favorably, to Turbo C or Lightspeed C.

DICE compiles and links all of GRn in under 1 minute.  With SAS, the time is more
than 2:30 with equivalent options (i.e. no optimizing on).

DICE, Manx, and SAS all support precompiled headers, as do most assemblers.

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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Mac & IBM advocates read this!
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:41:45 GMT
X-Bytes: 

Gerald G. Washington writes
> justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) writes:
> >Insecure may be the word to describe Amiga users.
> 
> Perhaps.  Those who must defend their systems against the words of insecure
> Amiga users must really be pathetic.

I'm clearing up misinformation.. I never try to convince people to buy or  
convert to Macintosh. If I were, this would be the last place I would go.
<oh.. it's you again>

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From: peter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Peter Korsten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New Amigas Announced!!!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:52:20 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls) writes:
: Okay, now that I have your attention, I would like to know what brands of 
: beer are the favorites among comp.sys.amiga.advocacy readers.  Over the 

Actually, I don't drink beer (or any alcohol, don't ask me why) and
normally I skip .advocacy, but everybody knows that the best beers come
from the continent of Europe, like Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Am I right?

					Peter.
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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: nap42487 "knows" 486's faster than 68040.
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:41:55 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.

In article <1992Apr8.204016.1@cc.helsinki.fi> lindblad@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>
>It's interesting when some PC owners rely on BNECHAMRKS....
>	Why dont' you (sorry for typos, I'm getting drunk) some day watch for
>manuals and check how many closk does it take to make instructions - also check
>which CPU has copyback mode, which has more orthogonal instruction set, which
>CPu has more general purpouse regoisters, which one has sepearate I & D caches?

	Well - with VAR pricing on 486/50MHZ motherboards (ISA) at
879$ WITH CPU and 64K cache I am beginning to care a lot less about
how elegant it is! 




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From: dtiberio@csws7.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple embroiled in new Look & Feel suit
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:37:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Apr08.195542.7047@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>In article <19485@chopin.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>>In an agreement 
>>formed as part of its alliance with Apple, IBM will hire Big Bird, 
>>repaint him accordingly, and create a joint Apple/IBM commercial 
>>featuring Snuffy and Big Blue Bird.
>
>Actually, in Holland Big Bird is blue. So IBM only needs to go to
>the Netherlands and hire their Big Bird. This is absolutely true!
>I've seen Sesame Street in Holland and Big Bird is BLUE.
>

	Here in New York he is all different colors.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Juicy tidbits
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:06:13 GMT


What sort of fool displays 8 bit GIFs in 32,000 colors?

I mean, what is the point?

T.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: borres@aix.rpi.edu (Steven D. Borrelli)
Subject: New .advocacy groups
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:23:35 GMT

Folks, c.s.a.advocacy is no longer alone. The Next people have just voted
in favor of a comp.sys.next.advocacy (among other groups). In addition, 
there is talk about an os2.advocacy group. 

It's time for a comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.advocacy so all of the other groups
can be unmercifully bashed.     :)




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Resolver Workbench (was WB2.1)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:56:03 GMT

In article <472@kas.helios.mn.org>rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes:
>
>	Maybe the 256 palette support is for THIRD PARTY products so they
>	can integrate their lines into AmigaDOS graphics easier?

On a similar note, could any of the current Resolver users clarify the extent
to which DMI's 'Resolver Workbench' can be used? According to a developer
distribution I just received, this facility makes provisions for running a
high resolution Workbench on the Resolver. Applications such as Pro Page and
PageStream are specifically mentioned to run in conjunction with the Resolver
Workbench to provide a 1280 x 1024 full-page display. Apparently 'many other'
applications also take advantage of this environment.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re:  Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom"
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:02:25 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.125938.14319@ms.uky.edu> justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) writes:
>> It's not ewhat have you seen, it's what is known. It is quite well known
>> that the Amiga has a very good, many consider to be the best, TeX program.
>
>Pardon me, but why would I want to bother with TeX when I have Word 5? Which is  
>easier? Which lets me do more? It certainly isn't TeX.. Besides, UNIX-based TeX  
>programs tend to be more flexible (though this is not necessarily true.. Only  
>with well-done, well-maintained UNIX TeX systems)

Word is totally inadequate for long technical documents. Why not ask the 
AMS,etc...why they have standardized on TeX? AmigaTeX is every bit as
good as any Unix TeX you will find. You basically don't know what you're
talking about.

[ ]

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: reaper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jason Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New Amigas Announced!!!!
Date: 11 Apr 92 14:07:13 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University

Personally, Bud Dry is my favourite.  Also: Bud, Busch Light, Genuine Draft,
and about anything else.  Of course I ofter opt for a cold shot of Jack
Daniels green label most of the time.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
Subject: Re: 040 and 486 and nap42487 knows nothing about CPUs.
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:16:09 GMT

jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>Gosh, Peter, aren't you clever.  Look, Dr. Kittel said, "If you don't
>share my opinion, you must be from another planet."  Do you deny that that
>is an arrogant attitude?  The Dr. himself admitted it was impolite.
>
>Now please explain what I said to warrant your calling *me* arrogant.
[...]
>Nope, he was wrong, just as you are.

Maybe now he has a reason.

-- Gerald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: Re: 040 and 486 and nap42487 knows nothing about CPUs.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:37:40 GMT


About the 040 and 486 instruction set, a lot of people have better confused
with preferable to program. A lot of people like programming the 68K line,
and that is what you guys have been saying, too. People just like to program
it. And as one person pointed out, this might be because that is what they are used to. It is very normal to prefer what you learn and use. When you switch
to something new and different, you naturally do not like it. This simple
philosophy is applicable to everything. 
In universities, the 68K line is used to teach. So that is what everyone
learns. 

Nish Patel   nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: Intel HW
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:59:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.060632.14773@ux.acs.umn.edu> har@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--) writes:
>In article <1992Apr11.052921.21547@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr10.213210.5408@seas.gwu.edu> gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>>>In any event Mr. Shekhel did not say what performance he was comparing.
>>>Perhaps the 386 falls faster from a 2nd story window.
>
>>	You are so out of it that I can't believe you would think such
>>a thing. Now I know better than to listen to any more of this crap. I don't
>>care if you have been using a 486 or an XT; your personal opinion doesn't
>>mean anything. How dare you claim that the speed of a 386 is any different
>>than an A3000 when dropped from a 2nd story window...they both accelerate
>>at 9.8 meters per second, which is around 32 feet per second!
>
>Not necessarily; see, there is also air resistance, which is a function
>of size. So, like, you have to compare weight per square inch, at least,
>and possibly aerodynamic concerns.
>
>Perhaps Mr. Haynie can help us out here... What *is* the maximum airspeed
>of an unladen A3000?

>Peter Seebach, using my fiancee's acount. (Please use "SEEBS" in the subject

	A3000 or A3000T?


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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom"
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:01:53 GMT
X-Bytes: 

Mike Whalen writes
>  JS> Then (with respect) they don't know what they're doing. If you have
>  JS> very little  
>  JS> RAM in a PostScript printer, it will choke on complex output. If you
>  JS> have a  
>  JS> very old printer (LaserWriter, LaserWriter Plus for instance) with
>  JS> new  
>  JS> software, it will probably choke anyway. If your software is at fault
>  JS> (very  
>  JS> likely. probably very common on the Amiga :), then switch software.
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   Just wanted to let you know that what you said up there was completely
> uncalled for. You are just feuling arguments and being an arse by saying
> that. Just don't you might like to know.

So you had to post that? Sheesh..

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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Amiga - Did I make a mistake?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:48:34 GMT
X-Bytes: 

Philip McDunnough writes
> Anyway, the more I play with the Amiga'd CDTV the more I appreciate it. It
> doesn't have 2.0 but I still like it. I think you'd be disappointed in the
> PC world. It, and the Mac as well though not so much, is quite boring in my
> opinion. You have not made a mistake with the Amiga. People who understand
> computing appreciate the Amiga a lot. Remember  that 80 million users of PC's
> do not necessarily imply that you'll like it. Stick with the Amiga.

UNDERSTAND COMPUTING!? PCs are not intended to sit on a desk and look pretty  
all day. They are not playthings. They tend to be very boring, yes (but have  
the greatest games.. :), but they are workhorses. That's why computing is here,  
and that is why it stays. Because it gets work done. If businesses did not  
consider computers useful, computing would have died out long ago (although we  
know this will never happen... just for the sake of argument).
Only an idle observation.. Time to get back to Windows 3.1 (with Civilization  
running in the background :)

> Just my 2 cents worth.

You forgot the tax.. 

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From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: WB2.1 on AB20 (Sort of)
Date: 3 Apr 92 06:46:51 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <1992Mar30.090201.1669@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>, 89u1569@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:
|> I guess everybody has spotted the WB2.1 textfile on AB20 (Well some of yaz)
|> Read up, didn't  know WB2.04 had so many problems as to fix it up so well. It
|> seems like an impressive cleanup. Notice that the pallete will handel 256
|> Colors !!!!. Problem is that the hardware won't be there. as noted at a
|> diffrent spot. But C= wouldn't say here's 256 if it didn't have something in
|> the pipeline.

	Maybe the 256 palette support is for THIRD PARTY products so they
	can integrate their lines into AmigaDOS graphics easier?

		-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: Considering switching to IBM
Organization: James Cook University, North Queensland
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 02:23:18 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.223557.15914@cs.mcgill.ca> jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH) writes:
>And a 50MHz 486 beats an 040 of what clock speed at doing what?  If you tell
>me it beats the 040 33 MHz, my only response would be "God I hope so with
>1-2/3 the clock speed it sure as hell better."

According to a benchmark (yeah useless I know) posted to comp.benchmarks,
the 50 MHz 486 only just beats the 25 MHz 040 at floating point.  A 33 MHz
040 would probably beat it.

It does do quite well in integer though.  The problem with all this is that
the 040 is only available in 25 MHz and more recently 33 MHz versions,
while the 486 is up to 50 MHz versions.  The 50 Mhz 486 would be
very nice as it benchmarks about the same as a Dec Station 5000 for
integer and is available in cheap clones here about the same price
as an Amiga 3000.

> Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) | "Sic Gorgianus Allos Subjectatus Nunc."

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re:   Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom" ?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:52:51 GMT
X-Bytes: 

John Bickers writes
> Quoted from <1992Apr6.195635.10380@ms.uky.edu> by justin@graphlab.cc.uky.edu   
(Justin Sullivan):
> 
> > A/UX 3.0 is *SVR4*.
> 
>     Why doesn't it have "Unix" in the name, BTW?

Because an intelligent reader would know what SVR4 is and assume it is UNIX.

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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re:   Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom" ?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:52:01 GMT
X-Bytes: 

>     So Apple actually say "A/UX 3.0 is SVR4", do they (seriously, I don't
>     know - I _thought_ they didn't say that about any A/UX)?
> 
>     If they don't, then the question becomes "why doesn't it have SVR4
>     in the name, BTW?".

This is getting silly.. For the same reason no other SVR4-UNIX has "SVR4" in  
it's name. IRIX 4.0.x doesn't. Solaris doesn't. AmigaUNIX doesn't say "SVR4" in  
it's name...

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From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore R&D Drops Almost 25%
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:18:11 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <1992Apr7.165738.7477@sun.pcl.ac.uk> marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey) writes:
>In article <1992Apr4.212106.18693@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>>In article <kdarling.701884015@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:

>>Actually, the original name was "HiTorro" (sp?) which came from a 
>>Japanese game in the same way the term "Atari" did (I believe that
>>Atari was the equivalent to "check" in Go and Hi-torro was the same
>>as checkmate, I'm not a Go person, so don't quote me on this). Anyway it
>>was changed to Amiga after a couple of months. Amiga was supposedly derived
>>from "Amica" or "Amicabilis" which is Latin for "friendly" or "peaceable".
>>
>The word "amiga" is Spanish for "female friend". They must have known this.
>
>So we have Girlfriend Computer Inc., Girlfriend500, Only Girlfriend Makes it
>Possible etc...
>

They wanted to use Amigo, but that name was already taken/trademarked.  So
Amiga was the next choice.


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From: kent@m31.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What will C= sell you for $999 in '92?
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:09:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

In article <rts5vINNh5f@agate.berkeley.edu> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) writes:
>He's back -- with wisdom, wit and wisecracks; full of vim, vigor, vitality
>and verve.  [And bored, completely bored ;)]

Bored! What happened to creating earthquakes with WEB? (we gotta change
the name)

Ok. You can see how far my last efforts at keeping Dave out of
csa.advocacy were. He was gone for almost two weeks!!!

So, I am taking invitations for another project for Dave. He finished
my last one too fast. How about a really hard one this time? Maybe we
can keep him gone for a month!! :^)

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From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: CBM suggestions address
Date: 5 Apr 92 21:22:45 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook


	Can someone please post CBM's suggestions box address?
I tried suggestions.cbmvax.commodore.com but got no response.
Any help?

	And does any one here take suggestions for improvements
to the OS? I have been thinking of some minor details that
would be easy to implement, nothing complicated...


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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Re: Considering switching to IBM
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:24:43 GMT

>As to getting a 486 or the A3000...   You really have to look at what you
>are getting.  In the case of the A3000, your machine will be useful to you
>for years.  In the case of the 486, it will be obsolete as soon as the 586
>comes out.  Sorry, OS/2 v3 doesn't work on anything less than the 586.

	Even if IBM did that, by the time they get OS/2 v3 shipping, 586's
 will be a dime a dozen.

						G.Greene


>Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
>1124 Fremont Ave.
>Los Altos, CA 94024