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Article #1032Re: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
From: Dave Haynie
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1986 19:36
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1986 19:36
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> Also, somewhere in this issue is a box detailing all the things that one
> must do to resize a window (on a Macintosh and on an Amiga). This is
> presented as a comparison, supposedly demonstrating that the Amiga is
> better than the Macintosh because you have to do less to resize a window.
> The operation was expressed as one step for the Amiga, seven (more or
> less, I don't have it in front of me) for the Macintosh.
>
> This is misleading, because in any application that I have ever written,
> that code appeared once and only once. Ignored is the possibility that the
> Macintosh method allows greater flexibility, etc. A casual, uninformed
> reader would conclude that the Amiga was better, and that was the intent
> of the demonstration.
>
> This is yellow journalism to the max, and certainly worthy of The National
> Inquirer. All in the guise of objectivity.
>
> I quit buying BYTE years ago...
> scott
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