Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <1991Mar17.092200.18019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 09:22:00 GMT References: <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <27E3053E.1145@orion.oac.uci.edu> Reply-To: l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 41 In article <27E3053E.1145@orion.oac.uci.edu> nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) writes: >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. I won't comment on this as I could care less whether or not Lotus or Microsoft port their latest and greatest products to the Amiga. If C= has to pay large sums of money, then I have to disagree, as C= has many other area (like RTG) that need to have large sums of money thrown at :-). >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)! This comment about `no productivity software' is utter BS of the first degree. CED/ISpell/AmigaTeX tied together with ARexx makes for one hell of a `productive environment' for writing proposals or research papers. Methinks you have not seen all the tools on the Amiga that I have. I also like ProVector for making drawing for my research papers. While ProVector is quite new and still not perfect, I think it is a wonderful product. The step between ProDraw I and II is about the same as the step from ProDraw II to ProVector. Just the fact that it has UNDO functions and a full ARexx interface make it leaps and bounds better than what Gold Disk has to offer. Gold Disk has been very against (1) adding UNDO and ARexx support to their product(s). I won't buy another one till they reverse this trend and I suggest you do the same. IMHO, programs without an ARexx interface (a complete one, not a lame on, as in AmigaVision), should be upgraded now! As the end user gains a lot of POWER for so little work (on the part of the developer). I have gotten off track, so I will stop talking :-0. (1) they have said this on BIX (over the last summer). Loren J. Rittle -- ``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would* *not* be made to directly support the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at the recent MacExpo. Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu