Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!hastoerm From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :) Message-ID: <4991@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 2 Feb 91 09:18:43 GMT References: <57522.664073195@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> <91031.190832JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91031.215406WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) Organization: Evil Young Mutants For A Better Tomorrow. Lines: 72 In article <91031.215406WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu> WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu (Bill Warner) writes: :In article <91031.190832JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT says: :> :>My current biggest gripe with my Amiga is I have to load up A-Max II :>to run a decent DeskTop Publishing program. NOTHING on the Amiga even :>comes close to the quality of either QuarkXPress or PageMaker on the :>Mac. Yes, that is Mac's forte, but why are ProPage and PageStream so :>slow and less-featured?? :> :> Kurt :>-- :> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- :>|| Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || With. Without. And who'll || :>|| 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. || deny it's what the fighting's || :>|| Malvern, PA 19355-2214 || all about? - Pink Floyd || :>|| jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu --------------------------------------|| :>|| jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || :> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- : : :Yea, and the ONLY reason I have an AT bridgecard with a dedicated hard drive :and a VGA card is so I can run Turbo C, Pascal, Debugger, etc. Nothing on the :Amiga even comes close. These programs make writing and debugging a breeze. I :write and debug a program on the IBM side then send it over to the Amiga. As :soon as Turbo stuff comes out on the Amiga I can sell the bridgeboard and buy a :3500! Chris, you should send a truck load of flames to Borland about Turbo Pascal. Being one of the original Amiga 1000 owners waaaay back in 86 and still having the Premiere issue of Amiga World, I can honestly say that at one time they had promised an Amiga version of Turbo Pascal. Here's a quote of the original ad from 1985: HOW BORLAND'S TURBO PASCAL FOUND A PARTNER THAT MATCHES IT'S AMAZING SPEED. Turbo Pascal Meets The Amiga. Turbo Pascal hates to wait. With Turbo, it's 'go fast' or 'go away'. So before we committed to becoming the exclusive Pascal programming language for Commodore's new Amiga, we had to be sure it was up to speed. It had to be fast -- and it is. 68000 based, with custom chips and graphics, Amiga doesn't dawdle. (In fact, Amiga's speed is going to be a headache, a heartache and a headwind to the Competition.) Thats just a sample of the Ad. I like to photocopy it every now and then and send it off to the kind folks at Borland who keep sending me letters asking me to stop sending them reminders of things they'd rather not remember. --Moriland -- | hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu | __ | | | __/// Viva Amiga! | | Founder Of: Evil Young | \XX/ | | Mutants For A Better Tomorrow | "Single Tasking: JUST SAY NO!" |