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From: dannie@coplex.UUCP (Dannie Gregoire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!
Keywords: prodigy amiga hatred
Message-ID: <191@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 15:41:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Copper Electronics Inc.; Louisville, Ky
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I had heard a while ago that Prodigy was going to port to the Amiga, so
I thought I'd give them a call to see if this was true.  Well it is not.
They said that they are NOT going to port to the Amiga "any time soon."

Prodigy, if you are unfamiliar is a dial-up information serice that will
allow you to do everything from send flowers to order from sears with 
a graphical interface. 

The person I spoke with gave me some bunk reasons about it being near
impossible to port the software to the Amiga due to its difficult 
programming environment, and the "hellatious memory requirements that it
would require for the graphics" (over the IBM and MAC).  If they port their
cheesy IBM-ish graphics (as seen in their Information Guide)  it should be
no problem at all.

The person I spoke with at Prodigy knew absolutely NOTHING of the AMIGA,
eventhough he seemed to think otherwise.  I think that the Programming
staff at Prodigy must be a group of ex-UNIVAC programmers from the 40's,
or a near equivalent. ;-)

PLEASE stand up for YOUR computer.  Call Prodigy TODAY and complain about
this lack of intelligence and information on their part.  Enough inquiries
might change their mind.

	Prodigy --- 1-800-822-6922   ext. 333

Dannie Gregoire 
Copper Electronics Inc.
(dannie@coplex)