Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!aru From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available? Message-ID: <3778@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 15 Jan 91 14:58:25 GMT References: <1991Jan14.002805.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1991Jan14.073918.27523@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan14.092400.10827@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jan14.104559.23914@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 17 In article <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > > God I hate my self for saying this but, Mark Barret is right about the >applications in the Amiga world. Have any of you who are flaming MB tried >Word or 123? Word for the MAC is one of the best, if not the best, >wordprocessors around. I have tried both Excellence and ProWrite (Yes, the If all these word processor programs are so good, then use them! After all the Amiga is a multi-environment system. Hell, use GnuEmacs if you like. Thats the great thing about this computer, if you don't like what Amiga software has to offer, well go ahead and use an IBM product (gasp!) or a Mac product. These days, IBM compatiblity is getting cheaper (ATOnce for instance) and a lot of people have the AMAXII program, so whats the big deal. Got the point? (now, if Amiga can come out with a program that lets you watch TV within the operating system, well..never mind. :-) Sri