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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Summary: Yay, Amiga!
Message-ID: <473@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 91 06:56:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.014258.5903@cc.helsinki.fi> <46969@ut-emx.uucp> <8=G24ln1@cs.psu.edu>
Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida
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In article <8=G24ln1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> 
> In article <1991Apr12.043922.23901@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
[about WP's deleted....]
>    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.

Does this mean you've tried them and you don't think Amiga DTP programs
are up to the task, or that you assume that they aren't?  (You know
what happens when you assume ... ;-)

PageStream looks like it has a lot of features, not that I've used a lot
of DTP programs; I've spent enough time so that I could do things on
PageStream that I did on a clone DTP, and couldn't tell the difference in
functionality (for the most part).  I honestly couldn't tell you which
one had more features, except that I couldn't remember being able to rotate
objects on the clone DTP the way I can in PS.  Also, .info magazine is
done with the Gold Disk DTP program Professional Page; how many more features
does it need?  ;-)

> 
>      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.

Well with people believing that you don't have software that's full-featured,
it makes it hard to convince them that you have a capable machine.  1/2 ;-)

I'm having trouble convincing myself that I should buy a clone.  I'd like
to upgrade, but I am happy with my Amiga for most things.  (Actually, I've
done fine with just an Amiga.  BTW, I have no need for business programs
on my Amiga; a "personal" level is more appropriate for most people, anyway.
The lack of the names Lotus or Ashton-Tate don't mean anything to me, and
I'm a paying customer, so I feel that I count.  :-)  BUT, if you need the
functionality of dBASE though, it has been mentioned that there's an Amiga
package that does the same thing.  But again, it doesn't have the big name,
so it probably doesn't count, eh? :-/  )

> 
>      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.

Is this good or bad?  I dunno.  :-)

> 
> -Mike
--
Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS                        // Amiga!
..uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop,   unf7!tlvx!sysop@bikini.cis.ufl.edu  \X/  Yeah!