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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autocad
Keywords: Amiga port business software
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Date: 24 May 89 17:04:53 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <5160034@hplsla.HP.COM> tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
>applications.  What is the incentive for AutoCad to be ported to
>Amy?  How many people would buy it, even at 1/2 the PC-edition
>price?  I'd guess maybe a few dozen.  If I were the manager responsible
>for making the decision to port it to Amy or not, and I were graded
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>on profitability, I'd run from it, screaming!  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Agreed, AutoCad is much too expensive to ever be sold on more than a few
Amigas. On the other hand (as I have mentioned before) the Amiga would
probably be an excellent market for GenericCad. It's cheap enough to fit
well withing the Amiga market & has enough capabilities to meet most needs.

I realize that Commodore doesn't seem to want the Amiga to penetrate
the real hi-resolution applications markets, but I still think that
there would be enough sales to justify it. I know several people who
would buy an implementation of GenericCad for the Amiga and I'm not
really looking, just hear such in passing.

It would need to be a full implementation of course, but...

Kent Polk