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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Microsoft products
Message-ID: <799@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 17:31:15 GMT
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In article <1990Jun1.025700.22540@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler) writes:
>Silly me, I should have better constrained my response:
>
>doesn't have a true software development kit which allows programs to be created
	In that case don't try to program a MAC either as there "development
	kit is also not existant" or so the local MAC guru tells me.

>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

	If that is the case then MS looked at the amiga about TWO years before 
	it was released.

>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
	If they have online support why do they not publish the number of this 
    in there documentation? Are they afraid some one will call with a bug and
    spoil your 0% errors ? I am forced to use Microsuck C version 5.1 here
    at work and spent a whole day going through the manual trying to find a
    number to  call for help when I could not get Code View to co-exist with
    our LAN software. Try debugging a LAN driver with CodeView when you can't 
    have them both in memory at the same time. It seems that my brain dead AT
    with 4 Megs of expanded memory runs out of TSR space running this
    applications together. After I stripped out all the tools that make a PC
    useable (ie superkey and a mouse driver and menu) I was finally able to get 
    it to run. For all it's greatness a "STANDARD AT" still has a 640K program
    limit. If it weren't for third party support the #$%@ machine would not be
    useable!
>of their business practices.  They've don right by me...
>
	My first felling was to email a response to you when I first read your 
	DWEEB message to me but refrained until I had read this moronic response
	Please go stick your head back into your PC and kiss your Micrs$#% good-
	nite and refrain from cluttering up this group any further with your
	"My computer is better than yours" dribble. I simply,orginally asked
	what was so radical about the AMIGA platform that it could not be
	translated to.

	Monty Saine