Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!ltf From: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Autocad (was OS/2 vs AmigaDOS) Message-ID: <8032@killer.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 7 May 89 07:56:10 GMT References: <7953@killer.Dallas.TX.US> <15588@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Reply-To: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 31 In article <15588@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes: >In article griff@intelob.intel.com (Richard Griffith) writes: >> I wonder how much it would cost to get them to seriously consider >>an Amiga for Autocad ---? (No job's too tough, if the MONEY'$ >>enough!) >How about GenericCAD? It's a lot cheaper than Autocad & seems to be >fleshed out enough to really be usable. More so than anything else I've >seen for the Amiga. Funny you should mention it....AutoDesk, Inc. (maker of AutoCAD) just purchased Generic Software (maker of GenericCADD)...it'll probably be marketed as a mid-range CAD program, between AutoSketch and AutoCAD. Don't give up though...since AutoCAD has a Macintosh version, the 68000 barrier has been broken. If the Amiga gets successful enough (in AutoDesk's eyes), you might see an AutoCAD version for it...Goddess knows they're putting it on just about every other platform. Lance > >======================================================= > Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute > kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu >======================================================= -- +-------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------+ | Lance T Franklin | | I never said that! It must be some kind of a | | ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US | | forgery...I gotta change that password again. | +-------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------+