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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autocad (was OS/2 vs AmigaDOS)
Message-ID: <8035@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 7 May 89 17:26:54 GMT
References: <8032@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <8032@killer.Dallas.TX.US>, ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) says:
> 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.

ARGH! I'd rather eat vomitous gopher stew! AutoCAD is a BEAR of a
program to learn. The user interface sux big time. If it came out on
the Amiga market tomorrow, it'd flop so bad that it'd make
WordPerfect's showing look good by comparison. 

What we need to do is convince people who write programs for real
computers (i.e. that already have windowing interfaces, multitasking,
and possibly even 68K-family processors) to write programs for the
Amiga. Let the PC-Drones stew in their own user-hostile juices.

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