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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Microsoft products
Message-ID: <1962@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 20:43:43 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <1990May31.091532.18895@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler) writes:

>Listen dweeb, I plainly stated that they already have IN EXISTENCE a platform
>independant system which was obviously designed with considerations from
>all three operating systems.  Obviously a radically different system like
>the Amiga (and it's lack of many of Windows,OS/2's SDK niceties) would
>present a difficulty.

     I should know better than to get dragged into a flame war,
but I just can't resist...  :-)

>Please!  And I suppose there is software like Excel, and WordForWindows
>on the Amiga?  How about Works, it sells in a bundle with more PC's
>per month than Commodore sells Amigas in a year.

     EVERYTHING is ForWindows on the Amiga!  As for Works, do people
get it because they really want it, or because it's in the bundle?
(Serious question here - I really don't know the answer.  Percentages
would help.)

>Given the choice of driving a Jaguar with mouldy seat covers, or a
>brand new Ford Tempo ... you would probably walk.

     My Reeboks would probably do well during rush hour.  :-)

>Besides, Microsoft has adopted a zero bugs policy.  (a change for
>the better I must say)

     Talking about a "zero bugs policy" is rash to the point of
silliness.  High reliability is an admirable goal, and indeed a
"change for the better."  But I've worked on enough medium to
large software projects to be skeptical of anyone who claims
there can't be some small bugs still lurking somewhere.  Of
course, you could always define them away: "That's not a bug,
it's a feature!"

     However, I do have one more serious question: which of "many
of Windows,OS/2's SDK niceties" are missing from the Amiga?  The
Mac is a "radically different system" yet they managed to cope.
I haven't gotten into either Windows or OS/2 and am curious.
(If they're significant, maybe Commodore should be curious too.)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.