Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Language Wars Message-ID: <1991May30.142542.23133@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 30 May 91 14:25:42 GMT References: <4006.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May28.122620.9020@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4032.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <4032.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > Quoted from <1991May28.122620.9020@sugar.hackercorp.com> by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva): > > In article <4006.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > > > The assembler folks will switch over easily enough. Look how many > > > are supposed to be ex-C= 64, for example. > > Yes, and look at the code they write. A lot of it won't run on my 3000 because > > it's 68000-specific. > Sure. These kinds of assembler folks also write primarily for > themselves, so it doesn't matter if their software won't run on your > machine (well, doesn't matter to you. Small dent in their sales, if > they are selling their stuff). I'm not talking about demos. I have a shelf full of software that screws up on my 3000, whether I'm running under 1.3 or 2.0. Things like DigiPaint, Photon Paint, and so on. The core of the Amiga's software base. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .