From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Move
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:19:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.162023.19198@usl.edu>, das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
|> In article <wjk3rn=@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:

|> >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)

Really? Who needs trivial niceties - I'll just name my directories things
like:

"SYS:WBStartup/Blankers/Flying Toasters"

--or--

"Desktop Publishing:Professional Page 3.0/Documents/BattleLords Character Sheet"

PSSST: Amiga users can use spaces, too. I just never do, because it's a pain
to have to quote them on the Shell line. There's still no <TAB> expansion in
the Shell, another UNIX feature that would be great to have...


|> >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!

True. It's not that bad. You get used to it - like the fact that SUN keyboards
have the tilde character DIRECTLY to the left of the Enter key, to the right
of the single-quote. DUMB, DUMB, DUMB! 

But the retard-slash is still in a stupid spot!

|> >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'??

HMMM? No...

Wait, there was once! My benchmarking program was running, and I was trying
to get a true measure of my system speed. 

...Well, it still wouldn't have CRASHED - it's just that the mouse and keyboard
were locked out, so I would have been wasting my time.

What ARE you talking about!?!?!?!?

|> 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.

WHAT don't I point out!?!?

The fact that Amigas are severely handicapped by the general cheapness of the
user base, who wouldn't know a hard drive if they fell over one!?!?!

I posted **LOOOONG** messages to this effect, with a lot of harsh words I am
beginning to regret, to this effect when the A4000 was introduced! You're 
waving THAT stick at the wrong person - I carved it!

|> >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?

He has a 1.44.

You post the strangest things...

|> Your rommie overreacted.... wonder why.  Could it be that he rooms
|> with 'Doc Ami'?
|> :-)

Just as a clue... the "Doc" holds no deep meaning as to my association with or
knowledge of the Amiga computer - it's a nomer bestowed on me by the NYC BBS
community, signifying my other great interest in life - British TV in general,
and Doctor Who in particular.

|> -- 
|> Dan Stephenson   das9674@usl.edu

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