Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!martian!rjz From: rjz@martian.UUCP (Robert J. Zepeda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaBASIC on A3000 needs NoFastMem Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 90 23:00:56 GMT References: <3348@crash.cts.com> Lines: 25 >In article <3348@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from peterk@cbmger.UUCP > >Another problem with AmigaBASIC is that it didn't allow for 32bit RAM >addressing...funny how MicroSoft, of all companies, didn't follow the rules >that say make no assumptions about the users system. > >Sean > I have had to work with Microsoft products for several years now. The one thing that is consistant in their IBM products is their insistance on not following even their own rules. Why should their Amiga product be any different. A quite that I heard at a trade show seems to sum up the attitude of Microsoft. "They be Microsoft, they know what people want to buy. Those people that do not know this, are stupid." -- -Jim- ***************************************************************************** * Jim Zepeda UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!martian!rjz * * C.T.A.C.S. -- Central Texas Amiga Computer Society * * Any opinions are my own. My employer can speak for itself. * *****************************************************************************