Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!isc-br!ewu!mpierce From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1540@ewu.UUCP> Date: 1 May 91 18:31:18 GMT References: <47889@ut-emx.uucp> <47946@ut-emx.uucp> <+b5G-i&-1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA Lines: 22 In article <+b5G-i&-1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > In article <48163@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > [stuff deleted about nExt interface builder vs Amiga interface builders] > > Chalk one up for the Amiga. Now if only Commodore could get WP or > some other decent word processor(and spreadsheet) so that the people > can buy their machines. Amiga Vision might be neat, but many people > (a big part of the market)use a computers for word processing and > spreadsheets(databases too -- NeXT is weak here too). > > -Mike Well, Amiga has got WP, from what people say, it's not all that great, but I use it for all my papers and I think it's just fine. Now there is DBMAN, which is (from what I hear) a compiler that compiles DBASE code, I guess that it needs more advertising or something. I think that a better word processor choice would be MS Word, even though the wordprocessors available on the Amiga are pretty good, they don't have MS Word's notoriety.