Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!tiger!gpsteffler
From: gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler)
Subject: Re: Microsoft products
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.025700.22540@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: Glenn Steffler (Co-Op Scum)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <04206.AA04206@sosaria.imp.com> <1990May29.212202.10871@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <795@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 02:57:00 GMT
Lines: 39

In article <795@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>In article <1990May29.212202.10871@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler) writes:
>>
>>They have already set up a very neat system where code is shared across 
>>architectures (MAC,OS/2,DOS) that allows for releases on the major platforms
>
>	If they have this "very neat system where code is shared across 
>architectures" why do you think the Amiga would be a "very difficult
>platform to provide for" sounds like a typical microsu**k thinking to me.
>I for one am VERY glad that they do not support the Amiga. It give the 
>Amiga a better sense of reality.
>
>Monty Saine

Silly me, I should have better constrained my response:

The Amiga (which I own, and love, but lets leave the religion beads at home fellas)
doesn't have a true software development kit which allows programs to be created
from the ground up easily.  I would have to say the Windows SDK is probably
the easiest I have used, whereas programming the Amiga would be "a bear".  The
resources for menus, gadgets, scroll bars, and dialogs weren't available when
MS first looked at the Amiga.  They can't turn back now because the Amiga has
changed, because they so much invested in the two largest personal computer/
office computer platforms.

Also, about the guy who laughed at the no bugs policy...pthtthptttt!

Windows 3.0 has to run on a large number of machines, and was in fact
rigorously beta tested by several thousand sites.  It is much more stable
than Amiga Dos 1.3 even.  (sorry best comparison I can make in this
group).

I appreciate Microsofts commitment, online support, update policies and most
of their business practices.  They've don right by me...

----
Co-Op Scum

gpsteffl!sunee.waterloo.edu	(hot in here from all the sparcs)