Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!alchemy!judge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
From: judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (rory toma)
Message-ID: <HPcD21w162w@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us>
References: <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 May 91 07:35:16 EDT
Organization: Alchemy International, Ithaca, N.Y.

melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

> 
> 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

Gee, NewTek makes some cool games, don't they?

rory