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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- References: <1992Dec25.143454.18410@usl.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09qz@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 09:46:06 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 81
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- In article <1992Dec25.143454.18410@usl.edu>, das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel
- A) writes:
- >In article <72384@cup.portal.com> Jim-Guy@cup.portal.com (James Lawrence
- Blastic
- >) writes:
- >>and monitors sell at all? I remember when a computer came out that had
- >>a color monitor as standard, stereo sound and speach synthesis built in,
- >>a multitasking operating system, and 256K of RAM (expandable to 512K
- internall
- >y)
- >> yet could still multitask applications with only 256K. The savvy 'populous'
- s
- >aid:
- >
- >You are terribly mistaken if you think an Amiga with 512K, much
- >less 512k, can multitask useful apps. Terribly mistaken.
- >
- >>"This must be a new toy game machine out to replace the fading Atari."
- >>"It certainly has no use in the REAL computing world." "Who needs to run
- more
- >>than one thing at a time?" "Who needs color?" "Who needs sound?" "Who
- needs
- >
- >>speech synthesis?" "Who needs animation, 3D graphics, etc.?"
- >
- >Well, a tthe time nobody wanted an Amiga because it didn't DO any of the
- >things businesses wanted. Hasn't this fact been belabored enough?
- >
- >>-I know- tis isn't advocasy..but I couldn't resist. WP is a dog.. porting it
- t
- >o
- >>the amiga is like porting MS-DOS to the Amiga. Really.. we must avoid these
- >>regressive tendencies and support our Amiga developers so they don't get
- stolen
- >
- >>by MS, but continue to bring newer, better and more powerful applications to
- >>the Amiga, a computer worth too much to be used just a fancy electric
- >>typewriter.
- >
- >And the extreme popularity of this fancy electric typewriter is what gets us
- >all the great software Amigas cannot get. Amigas are game machines? Not
- >the games *I* play. Check my .sig.
- >
- >>Having been in the clone business and the consulting business I realize that
- >>most computers installed in businesses are used just for running Word
- Perfect.
- >>WHAT A WASTE!
- >
- >As long as there are Amigans like you, they won't be any acceptance of Amigas.
- >As soon as some people *really* advocate the Amiga and try to get it to
- >be 'acceptable' to a plurality, people like you yell in their face
- >'oh my, but we're _special_ people, with a _special_ computer, we don't want
- >mainstream applications vendors, we want to be _different_.'
- >
- >Gack.
- >
- >>JimGuy
- >--
- >Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- >"Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- > appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- > everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- I too am sick and tired of Amigans saying they don't need mainstream apps.
- Yesterday I was at a friends house, and I was checking out his new Gateway 486.
- I was looking at MS Word, and I was in heaven when I found the equation
- editor. I liked the interface. The only problem I had with it was that it was
- under Windows. I would love to have that program on the Amiga. Quattro Pro
- has linear regression built in as a feature. The only thing I saw in Quattro
- Pro that I didn't like was that you had to have all of the @ commands
- memorized. After MaxiPlan, I figured that all good spreadsheets would let you
- choose functions from a requester. Other than that I loved it. I would love
- to see these programs ported over to the Amiga. For all of those who don't
- want mainstream DOS and Mac apps. ported, let me ask you, do you like doing
- tables of contets, and indexes manually? What about footnoting? I wish there
- was something that could be domne to get ports from other platforms.
- Jay Brown
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- IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
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