Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jhc00614
From: jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C= (DAVE HAYNEIE) please read this
Message-ID: <46200075@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 04:57:00 GMT
References: <20724@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Lines: 14
Nf-ID: #R:snow-white.udel.EDU:20724:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:46200075:000:748
Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jhc00614    Jun  6 23:57:00 1990


     To Chris Dailey, who asked why Amiga's are bundled w/ a decent word
processor like MacWrite is on the Mac...
     Apple used to bundle MacWrite for the Mac but it really stifled WP 
development for the system.  Who'd want to shell out bucks for another WP
when MacWrite was decent enough?  I believe they stopped bundling software,
and later, spun off their software division as Claris.  I know Mac developers
were very happy about that.
     For the same reasons, I figure, CBM will not bundle much more than
notepad and Amiga Basic.  We'd probably never have gotten WordPerfect, ProWrite,
etc.... if they did.  
     Also, look at the flak CBM is taking for bundling AmigaVision w/ their
computers now.....
                           Later