Amix was Re: Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

[John Foust]

At 02:50 PM 6/1/2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>On 6/1/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>>The rest of it, yeah, but not networking and hypertext.  By "not" I
>>mean that those are not thing that were groundbreaking with the Amiga.
>>The Mac had Hypercard and the Amiga never had any decent networking
>>until long after it was introduced.
>
>That's true.  I shouldn't have lumped networking into that list.  My
>only excuse was that I was into networking Amigas long before most
>other users cared about it.

Aww, I thought I'd get the blame for putting networking on that list.
Yes, networking wasn't that common on PCs back then, either.  

My Amiga business partners thought a DECnet for Amiga would be
real popular.  We ported it.  It wasn't.  Not even paired with
Dale Luck's X Window to turn the Amiga into an X term.

Sometimes the ideas are in the wind - yes, Mac had Hypercard,
but tagged text file help file / doc file systems were in place
on the Amiga, too, predating HTML.

- John