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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Microsoft products
Message-ID: <1924@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 19:42:38 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <04206.AA04206@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com
(Chris Brand) writes:

>A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Microsoft Corp. in West Germany, asking
>them
>if they had any plans to produce software for the Amiga. The answer was what I
>expected - no.

Count your blessings.

>[horror story deleted]

I could tell you horror stories about writing commercial software
for MS-DOS.  Things like how the COPY command will refuse to copy
a zero-length file, but will still delete a currently-existing
destination file (this one caused a beta site in Montreal to
not only die at month-end, but to also lose the entire month's
transactions).

There's nothing surprising about WinWords being slow.  Try playing
with AmigaBASIC for a while.

One of my pet claims for the Amiga is that as long as I don't use
AmigaBASIC I can avoid ever running anything written by Microsoft.
I'd rather stay away from quirky code written by a company whose
policy seems to be "That's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"I'm cursed with hair from HELL!"  -- Night Court