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From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-))
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Date: 17 Mar 91 05:57:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>>In article <7724@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>
>> [ whole bunches of lines on the NeXT's availability deleted]
>>
>>
>>BTW: It feels good knowing that Word Perfect 5.0 runs on the NeXT.
>It feels good that AT&T Unix runs on an A3000.
>
>>How's Commodore doing in getting software companies to take them
>>seriously?
>
>It's not a matter of taking the Amiga seriously, it's a matter of
>paying their development fees. Lotus would be glad to port their
>products to the Amiga for about $15 mill.
>

Don't know about Word Perfect, but I think it might be worth it for Commodore
to pay Lotus to port Improv from NEXT, or Microsoft to make Word instead of 
spending the money to advertise in magazines or newspapers.  Just having
these programs will sell the machines.

Right now if I want to write proposals or research some papers, I am forced to
use Amax on my 3000.  There is no productivity software for the Amiga (period)!