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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: 5 Apr 91 15:33:23 GMT
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<jcGp1lg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>I think you may be over simplifying the the ease with you are going to
>get Sun software to run on the Amiga.  Anyway, wouldn't you much
>rather run that same software on an 040 NeXT, or better yet an HP
>Snake :-)?  Why is it only future software?  dBase IV, Lotus 123, and
>WP all run on the Sun now.
>

	If the software is compliant with the ABI binary standard for 680x0-based
UNIX systems, it should run without even the need for recompilation.
    Send me a NeXT or a Snake with some software & I'll let you know how
I like 'em :-)


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