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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 23:34:19 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.160633.9512@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <27E3053E.1145@orion.oac.uci.edu> nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) writes:
>>In article <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>
>>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)!
>
> Oh bull. There are plenty of Word Processor and DTP programs for the Amiga.
>They jusr aren't as easy to use (in Mac user's opinions) as MS Word, etc.


I have WordPerfect, Pen Pal, Pro Write 3.1, Pro Draw 2.0, Pro Page2,
Page Stream 2.0, Pro Vector2.0 (pretty good), etc....

No simple programs like MathType, Cricket Graph!


>You could still get work done you'd just have to read the manual and learn
>how to use the program.


Of course, you can do most of the stuffs on the Amiga, but the productivity
goes away when you have to use tricks.  Have you ever seen how slow 
ProPage2.0 and Page Stream 2.0 on the A3000 compared to PageMaker on SE/30?
PakeMaker 4.0 just came out for windows and it ran really fast on my 386.

I am not trying to bash the Amiga.  I am an Amiga Fanatic.  I still have 
my A1000 that I got in '86.  But after 5 years, I haven't really
seen that many programs comparable to other systems.    

Question!? Are there any Amiga word processors that let you insert tables,
and structured drawings in the document?

Haven't checked out AmigaTEX though!

What about spreadsheets, and databases!
Haven't found a spreadsheet that is comparable to EXCEL or WINGZ!  
Last year, I had to ran some regressions for a class, and I tried to use
the Amiga.  Took me about two days to get it to work on MaxiPlan!
The thing gets really slow when there are a lot of data, and it kept on
crashing.  I could have done the same thing on a Mac for about 5 hours.

>Lotus is another one of those greedy companies trying to copyright
>look-and-feel. I wouldn't want Commodore to pay millions just to port
>a single piece of software.,
>

Just one good program can sell many computers.  I am sure many original IBM
PC were sold because of LOTUS 123!!!