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From: chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rant, Rave...
Message-ID: <410@gtss.gatech.edu>
Date: 4 May 89 13:25:37 GMT
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Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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In response to an article of mine, in article <16999@usc.edu>
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
)
)Sorry to disappoint you, but I hardly think that "poor" sales of WP can
)be at all atributed to piracy.  WP is a product that is practically unusable
)without a manual.  Moreover, WP was totally unusable when run on an Amiga 500.
)This was one of the main blunders that made WP not sell well in Europe where
)most machines are Amiga 500s.
)
I'm NOT disappointed by any means to hear that "poor" WP sales cannot be
attributed to piracy.  I have just seen increasing evidence in our user
group of piracy (especially since the advent of the 500), and it torques me
out.  I'll accept what you say.

(However, I think the statement that WP is unusable without a manual is too
strong.  There are many WP books out there and the Amiga setup is very
similar to the IBM one for which all those books have been written.  Such
a book (possibly even borrowed) and a zerox of the template, especially coupled
with all those helpful menus, make reasonable proficiency accessible
without the official manual.)

But I'm unfamiliar with the problems WP had running on the 500.  The WP VP
made a remark about WP 'not running well' on the 500, but I thought perhaps
that should have been 'not selling well'. 

Now this is interesting.

Does this mean that WP doesn't run well on my two floppy 1000 either?
I've been fairly happy.  What's the particular problem with the 500?
Slow-fast memory?  Do most 500 owners only have one drive?  I use Facc-II.
Could that be it?  Or do most 500 owners only have 500K, and that's not
enough memory?

How about this for a deal:  I'll stop guessing and let somebody tell me.
-- 
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure

Charles Cleveland   Georgia Tech School of Physics   Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
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