From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
Date: 26 Dec 92 09:46:06 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

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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