🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <42kd55$c62@steel.interlog.com>,
 daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:
> dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) wrote:
> 
> >: The Amiga's a toy.
> >Well the AmigaOS can multitask better than any Mac or IBM PC os can.
> >How come more games are sold for IBM Personal Computers than any other
> >platform?  I think that IBM PCs are toys, and you know what, they will
> >continue to be toys until they can write a better os than AmigaDOS.
> 
> Simple.  Take out the memory protection,

Fair enough.

>  make the GUI bog-ugly,

You haven't seen an Amiga more recently than v1.3 then.

>  add
> confusing uses for the left and right mouse buttons,

Eh?  The left mouse button is the command button (for
clicking on icons, window activation, etc.) and the right
button is for menus (and, by convention, rubbing things
out in graphics programs). How is that confusing?

>  tie the OS to
> custom chips where adding new graphics and sound hardware is a
> hack,

This has been partly addressed. If Commodore hadn't
committed suicide, it would have been fixed by now.

> and erradicate all software support.

That's hardly the fault of the OS though.


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