Hello !
> The Amiga lacked text-mode hardware. This is a lack.
You have the shell, which is text-mode.
> The "snip" program, similar to "selection" or gpm, had to
> do a sort of "digital font recognition".
No, this is a kludge that enables to copy even from GUI program that
doesn't support it...
> The IFF file format was developed on the Amiga, IIRC.
Yes.
> Idono, but I think IFF is basically an un-bounded data description language.
You have IFF pictures, sounds, configfiles, animations, and any program may
save it's data in it's own IFF file...
> I see one general categorization of Linux users. There's the net.gods,
> i.e. the classico UNIXers, which the core developers mostly are, and the
> orphaned Amigans. I, obviously, am the latter. So why don't I get an
> Amiga?
And the dispointed Windows users...
I am understand with all the ret of your message, though...
Denis
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