8 Nov
1998
8 Nov
'98
7:43 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
If I remember correctly a A2500 is a A2000 with a
Commodore SCSI controller
and a Hard Drive.
That would be the A2000HD, I think.
Might have also included a 68020 accelerator.
The A2500 came with either a 68020 or a 68030 accelerator.
The university I attend used to have several A2500s, and they still might.
AREXX = Amiga REXX not really sure much about it. I
believe it's used a
lot for scripting. IBM is the only other company I can think of to use
REXX.
ARexx didn't ship with the Amiga's OS until 2.04 or 2.1 (forget which) but
it was available in the Workbench 1.2 days I think, as a third-party
product.
You can do a lot of really nifty things with ARexx scripts, because most
programs have ARexx ports which the scripts can use to control the
programs.
I've only used ARexx a few times myself. The syntax is quite ugly, IMHO.
And it's slow. It also bugs me when applications programmers are too lazy
to add features into the programs themselves but include Rexx commands to
let you do it.
Here I'm thinking of the VLab software, which has a "Minimize Noise"
option in the menus, but which doesn't let you select the number of frames
it merges together. Default is 5, so if you want to make it use only
three images you've got to do something like:
ADDRESS VLAB
MINIMIZENOISE ON LEVEL 2
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Doug Spence
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