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From: kim@mips.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A wierd thought...
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 17:32:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 10 17:32:33 1986
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> My opinion is that the Amiga will NOT succeed without widespread availability
> of powerful and meaningful software that businesses need and use.  We
> should at least be able to get many of the same software titles that
> people recognize and purchase for their PC's.  So far things are just
> trickling out...
> -- 
> Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"

Very true!  What is really bothering me about this, is that I continue to
hear (from completely disparate sources) that several major s/w houses have
products that have been ported to run on the Amiga "sitting on the shelf".
Supposedly, before these products will be released, CBM has to have sold
some "magic number" of Amigas ... this is to insure that there is a large
enough (potential) install-base to cover the cost of product support.  The
number most frequently heard is 100,000 units (Amigas).

It is *rumored* that this is the case with 1-2-3, dBase II/III, and 
TurboPascal.  Can anyone on the net confirm/deny these rumors ... I know
that Lotus is on the net, so perhaps they would care to comment.

And lesee, I recall Borland promising to support the Amiga in the 1st
issue of AmigaWorld, etc.  Haven't seen anything further from them since
then ... looks like they are catering only to PC-DOS machines, since
their latest offering (TurboPROLOG) won't even run on a generic MS-DOS
machine ... ridiculous for a *compiler*!

/kim
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