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From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: IBM a great game machine (an IBM guy's perspective)
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Date: 9 Nov 90 03:25:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.215641.16149@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> 
  smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) writes:
>In article <9240@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu 
>But I also want to do other things with my computer.  And since
>I don't have enough money for both (yet!) I choose the IBM.
>I want to program, write a thesis that needs a word processor with
>a foreign character set (WYSIWYG), display fractals, print quality
>reports, and anything else I can find to do that is either fun
>or profitable.

Uh, Steve, no offense, but once reason I bought an Amiga that *I* 
wanted to program.  I'd worked x86 machines before all the way down
to the system level, and I have to say I never enountered anything
to make me believe that a PeeCee was a programmer's paradise.

Anyway:

1) The compilers for the Amiga now rival Borland's for completeness and
   ease of use.

2) I don't know about the word pro stuff...

3) WHY would you use a PeeCee with SGA (slow graphics adapters) for
   fractals?

4) If your reports are desktop, why go PeeCee there either?

This is not really intended to be a flame (yeah, I know it sounds like one.)
but it doesn't sound like you picked the right machine except _maybe_
for word pro. stuff.  (And I say that because I haven't looked into it...)

Oh well...

Greg
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