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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question 3: How's Commodore doing?
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Date: 8 Jan 90 02:56:14 GMT
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>I believe the deal was if Commodore could sell 100,000 Amiga units in
>4q89, Microsoft would start porting stuff. This is what the guy asking
>the original question wanted to know.


Gee, after using the wonder from Microsoft "AmigaBASIC", I count my blessings
that Microsoft isn't in the Amiga software game.  What a piece of garbage!

Now, ABasiC, that came with AmigaDOS 1.0 back in the good ole days, there
was some software with promise.  At least it could scroll without tripping
over its own feet!

Me, I'm real happy with Lattice C 5.04.  Here's one software product that
has shown steady improvement since the Developer's version I got back with
the Amiga 1000 introduction.  I wish more software vendors supported their
customers with very reasonably priced upgrades to fine product.

Microsoft?  Feh.  It will be interesting to find out if they could be
worse than that pox on Amiga users, Electronic Arts.  Double Feh!

louie