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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
In-Reply-To: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 12 Apr 91 04:39:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.043922.23901@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:


     I'll tell you who cares. I just got Microsoft Word today. It takes
   up 680k on the disk, just for the application file (Macintosh). Meanwhile,
   I have two other outstanding word processors (Pro Write and excellence!)
   each of which COMBINED do not take up that much (Amiga)! 

Which is  the better word processor?

     I really get mad when I find out that a program requires 4 megs to run,
   when it is nothing more than a weak destop publisher, which competes with
   300k or less Amiga DTPs. 

I somehow doubt that the most feature laden DTP packages are available
on the Amiga.

     I can boot a bare bones system of 512k and only use up about 50k for
   the system, which leaves over 460k to run any software I want to. I hear
   that the current Mac OS requires at least 1 meg or more, and that 
   Windows 3.0 requires 2 megs. And to think AmigaDOS requires .05 megs....

Well, then you any problem convincing people to buy an Amiga.

     So when do we see some real programming? :)

     Just look at Berksoft's GEOS Ensemble for the PC. It will run on anything,
   plus it allows multitasking or single tasking. And all Microsoft can come
   up with is Mr Elephant, Windows 3.0.

Everyone knows Windows 3.0 is a joke.  But IBM'ers will do what ever
it takes to get a Macinstosh w/o actually buying a Macintosh.

-Mike