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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore & Universities
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Date: 25 Jul 90 16:34:23 GMT
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BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:


>   The Amiga has no software available for it because there is no market
>for Amiga software.  As much as I'd like to see such software as MATLAB
>and Mathematica ported to the Amiga, this will likely never happen.  If
>the developers of these programs were to port them to the Amiga, they would
>only sell three or four copies, making it not worth the effort of these
>developers.


Er, Marc. check your facts. MATLAB is out there for the Amiga.
Matter of fact, it was posted to comp.binaries.amiga not long ago.
There is Maple instead of Mathmatica available for the Amiga also. 
Which you would know about if you happened to read comp.sys.amiga in the
last couple of weeks (it was just discussed).

Each platform has it's strengths and weaknesses. PC's have spreadsheets
and business software. Macs have scientific and word processing and graphics.
Amiga's have Graphics, sound, video, and games. Not to mention having a 
lot of business stuff and some fair word processing stuff also. Plus you
can EMULATE both of the other two machines so you can use their software too!

So it doesn't make any difference if the Amiga doesn't have any scientific
software, you can emulate the Mac and run *it's* software. So complaining
about lack of certain packages on the Amiga when it is available on a
Mac or IBM is pretty much a non-issue (sure there are some packages that
won't run, but not that many). I don't see you complaining about Mac's not
having decent multi-tasking, or any good Desktop Video packages. 

I guess since the Mac's don't have much video, or animation stuff out yet, 
I can complain that Mac's don't have any software. After all, that's what
you are doing when you say Amiga's don't have any software. 


Let's see the Mac run Amiga software. 
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