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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <2975.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 2 May 91 08:26:29 GMT
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Quoted from <yc6Gxqm_1@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> And I've heard several Amiga people state the word processing isn't up
> to par on the Amiga.

    Who knows, who cares. The important applications (writing code,
    writing scripts for ray tracers, etc) have things like CED and UEdit,
    along with the standards like MicroEMACS, "mg", all the "deep-VI-your
    files" clones, etc.

    Another important factor that folks overlook when discussing the
    core three user applications (word processing, spreadsheets, and
    databases, according to the old C= 64 days (haw)) is that the
    people with the $$ also want to share the data across machines. So
    already owning a particular machine within a corporate group has
    a big impact on their decisions about standards.

    Thus the PClone's success, and the success of platforms that aim
    to handle that market in a similar fashion (Mac, PC-Unix, etc). Macs,
    I think, have ridden the backs of yuppies to get into corporate
    positions. Like Unix and C have been pushed by CS students into
    mainstream areas.

> -Mike
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