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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 3 May 91 05:48:58 GMT
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In article <11710@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:


   Thank you no, and what you just said is the reason that ANY program
   will fail on an Amiga.  I don't want a _PORT_.  I want an amigatized
   program from the ground up.  DBMan V will be getting an arexx port
   soon, or so I hear.  I'd rather get that.  Improv may be nice on the
   NeXT, but your standards for good software are FAR different from an
   amiga user's viewpoint.  We expect integrated packages...  And what's
   the size of Improv, anyways?  And just how well would it run on a
   stock 68000?  These are things just at the tip of the iceberg to think
   of...  And if everything IS in objective c, I could always convert it
   to c++...  Compile it on the amiga, and watch how many people turn
   away from it.  It's less than what an amiga user expects.  Which
   explains WordPerfect Perfectly.

Good reasoning: we really don't want those packages anyway.  And if I
remember correctly WP had dropped the Amiga, but there was a loud
enough out cry that that gave one person the job of maintaining it.

Here is the size of Improv and its help.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 me       wheel    1668841 Jan 23 09:57 Improv*
-rw-r--r--  1 me       wheel    1397626 Jan 23 09:57 bbqref.hlp

To much for you to handle?  Amiga users have such high standards.  To
bad the game companies are the only ones that can deliver products to
your satisfaction.

-Mike