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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
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Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 13 Jun 89 08:01:48 GMT
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Well, if Dale isn't going to toot his own horn ... let's do it for him!  :-)

Dale, as GfxBase, will be showing at "Xhibition '89" in San Jose, CA, from
June 25-28 (yes, starts on Sunday).

If you need registration forms and/or a number to call to register, either
see me at FAUG June 13 or send email.

To put it mildly, I was *VERY* impressed by Dale's demo of X at BADGE earlier
this year.

And in support of Michael Garvin's comments about software, I've recently
acquired something for the Amiga that blows the IBM/PC-based applications
out of the water: Prolific, Inc.'s PRO-NET and PRO-BOARD (contrasted with
p-CAD on the 'DOS machines).  And Prolific states: "FOR AMIGA ONLY!"

If you don't know what p-CAD and PRO-BOARD/-NET are, these are printed circuit
board schematic capture and board layout programs (among other things).  One
draws schematics on the (hi-res) screen, and from that is produced a netlist
from which is produced a PCB.  From what I've been experimenting so far, the
PRO-NET/-BOARD on my '020 lab Amiga just creams p-CAD running on a 20 MHz '386
clone.  I'm next writing progams to convert all the p-CAD databases to the
PRO-NET/-BOARD formats ... then EVERYTHING'll be done on the Amiga (HW & SW).

Tools such as Dale's X and Prolific's PRO-NET/-BOARD *ARE* the means by which
the Amiga gains credibility.

Now where's that 50MHz '040 A4000?  :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR)  ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]