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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Better than Advertising
Keywords: value enhancement
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Date: 19 Mar 90 04:56:10 GMT
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In article <5830@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian E Rhodefer) writes:
>Recently, and from time to time, people lament Commodore's
>
>1) Hire Lotus to run their (allegedly recoded-in-C) 1-2-3
>   spreadsheet program through an Amiga compiler.

	Although I don't know a company, Gail Wellington directly
implied that there is a major company producing for the Amiga. This
was during her keynote address at AmiExpo DC. 
>
>2) Accelerate the implementation of outline-style fonts
>   and printer drivers so that Amiga WP products could
>   produce decent output without writing their
>   own printer-specific drivers.

	Compugraphic is going to be in 1.4, although how strongly it
will be implemented is in question. Supposedly it will not be
implemented very flexibly as of 1.4, but that is because they won't
have a chance to make it better, at least not by the time 1.4 is released.
>
>3) Develop a cheap but effective office networking scheme,
>   a la AppleTalk.

	Commodore is developing Ethernet and Novell. That is public
knowledge.

>
>Brian Rhodefer


	-- Ethan

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