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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Feeping Creaturism
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Date: 14 Mar 88 03:33:22 GMT
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In article <775@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <7599@apple.Apple.Com>, lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>> Allow me to correct some errors.
>
>Ready when you are.
>
>> People at Microsoft, Aldus, ... would disagree with you.  They ported their
>> programs between the Mac and Windows.  I have read where this was not a
>> major effort (provided you allow for this in the first place).
>
>I don't know about Aldus, but Microsoft is notorious in the Mac community
>for badly-behaved programs that bend the User Interface rules and have to
>be rewritten every time a new system comes out. Maybe they made their port
>real easy by doing a poor job.

	Sigh.  Are you suffering from a short memory? (i.e., Word 3.0)
I've seen the same copy of Word 1.0 work on a 512K Mac, Lisa 2 running MacWorks,
a Mac+, and the Mac SE.

	"... rewritten every time a new system comes out? ..."

	Nonsense.

	This subject is worn out.


Flip side,

	joe