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- Date: 4 Apr 91
- From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Please help me decide
-
- Dear Amiga fans:
-
- Please help me decide how to spend my money! I am considering
- getting an Amiga 3000UX because I think it's a really cool machine. But
- lately, I've been thinking that it would be better to buy a new stereo
- system, or maybe some real estate. Could somebody please tell me the
- advantages and disadvantages of each? Please POST your answers because I am
- sure lots of people have the same question.
-
- Also, I want to start programming the Amiga, and I would like to
- know which language is best. Is assembly language really useless, or what?
- And does C suck? Once again, please post all your answers.
-
- In case you are interested... my first programming project will be a
- "clock" that displays the time in the right hand corner of the Workbench
- screen. On lots of advice from the Net, I've decided that my program should
- kill the OS and take over the machine. All the other clock programs I've
- seen are just too slow -- they take an entire SECOND to update the display!
- Go straight to the metal, that's what I always say.
-
- Oh yeah, another question: why isn't there a new Amiga chipset
- yet? I swear, if General Electric can bring out a new refrigerator model
- every 6 months, why can't Commodore? Maybe they should spend more money.
- Or save more money. Or both. Anyway, I know what I'm talking about because
- my uncle took a marketing course once.
-
- Finally, I missed the most recent NeXT vs. Amiga flame war. Could
- somebody please repost all of the articles?
-
- Thanks!
-
- Dan
-
- *******************************************************
- * Appendix A of the Amiga Hardware Manual contains *
- * secret devil-worship messages, and many episodes of *
- * "The Partridge Family", if you look hard enough! *
- *******************************************************
-
- Copyright 1991 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed, but may not be included in any
- publication without the written permission of the author.
-