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From: protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Joel Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pet Peves or Why,  oh why do they do this? (long)
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Date: 12 Jun 89 11:14:33 GMT
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I haven't been following this conversation so forgive me if
my pet peeve has already been mentioned.             

I just sold my A1000 and bought an A500.  My dealer was offering
a special deal for people who purchase a new system, it was  
'The Critic's Choice' software trio at a very good price.  It
contains KindWords, MaxiPlan 500, and Microfiche Filer. 

What I really hate is programs that come on a WorkBench disk and
expect you to boot them.  Come on folks, the Amiga is a multi-
tasking machine and can (and should) run many programs at one
time.  By making your programs need to be booted you eliminate
the possibility of doing this.  The first thing I had to do with
MaxiPlan is to sleuth the startup-sequence to make sure there was
nothing special in there.  Then I deleted everything that made it
a workbench disk.  I would hate to have to do all of that if I 
were a novice user who knew nothing about the Amiga.   When will
developers realize that we already have our own favorite WorkBench
that we boot with.  All they need to supply is a program and an 
icon.  This sort of packaging is _a_l_m_o_s_t_ acceptable for games,
but for productivity software it is simply unacceptable.  It vastly
hinders the usefullness of a multitasking machine, unless you 
really know what you are doing.

Comments?
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