riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) (02/08/89)
In article <1223@dukeac.UUCP> rsb@dukeac.UUCP (R. Scott Bartlett) writes: >In article <3382@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>[some flame about serial ports] >[more stuff on serial ports] > I know this is getting off the subject, but it is sort of related. >Many Mac enthusiests (sp?) tout that their machine is easier to use than the >Amiga. This is true to some extent. Macs come with a great piece of software >called (if i remember correctly) "Introduction to the Macintosh." The Amiga >however lacks a comparable piece of software. I remember trying this on the first Macintosh I got to play with. It crashed. I suppose by now they've worked some of the bugs out. Anyway, 1.1 did come with a disk-based tutorial. I actually thought it was kind of nice. In fact, it's the only reason I still have the 1.1 distribution diskettes still archived. It was called "Amiga Tutor", and I'd run it now, except I don't remember if it multi-tasks. I think it was written on contract by Activision or some such, so C-A may not even have the source, even if they wanted to update it. And they don't have the free space on the Extras disk anymore. And it's probably not a priority. Perhaps someday... -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) -Wilson Lab, Cornell U.