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- From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,uk.misc
- Subject: Re: OED on CDROM
- Message-ID: <EACHUS.92Nov17143928@Dr_No.mitre.org>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:39:28 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: sb380@city.ac.uk's message of 12 Nov 92 09:04:16 GMT
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- In article <sb380.721559056@KingsX> sb380@city.ac.uk (HOLT A D) writes:
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- From the point of view of a commercial data, it is unlikely
- that any other platform (than Windows, Mac, Unix, and possibly
- OS/2 and NT) would have sufficient sales to justify their
- development effort - even the Unix version may be questionable
- in this sense (except that OUP use SUN)
-
- Two points: First, I have had great luck with taking Unix software
- and recompiling for the Amiga and running--I often spend more time
- looking for things to change than changing things. Presumably, if
- they are marketing for Unix (instead of just Sun SPARC), they will
- need to deliver source or some mythical ANDF, so a homebrew Amiga port
- is not out of the question.
-
- Second, the size of the potential market is determined by both the
- number of available machines and the percentage of machine owners who
- will buy. If the OED software for the Amiga is well written, it might
- enjoy a MUCH larger market than an MS-DOS version that is impossible
- to configure as a TSR.
-
- (Ob disclaimer: I don't know anything about the MS-DOS version,
- the TSR is an example not a statement of fact, got it?)
-
-
- Robert I. Eachus
-
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- Robert I. Eachus
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