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- From: djarvis@u.washington.edu (David Jarvis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Can Final Writer do tables?
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 08:31:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- < return of the WW vs FW wars deleted >
-
- >Enough of this.
- >When will both of you get your act together and catch up with Microsoft
- >Word 5 for Mac?
- >Digita, you should take note that it runs acceptably fast on a 68000
- >based Mac Plus with 1 MB, just requiring a hard drive.
- >Softwood, notice that it has all the basic word processing features
- >(non-breaking spaces, tables, equation editor, view invisibles etc.)
- >rather than concentrating on useless interface gimmicks.
- >I look forward to WW6 and FW6, I hope!!!
- >
- >Trevor
-
- Hear Hear! Applause and Encore! The FW interface is nice. MS Word or
- at least RTF import/export would be better, along with true table, not
- just Arexx scripts tabbing it and drawing it (the one change and it's all
- gone syndrome).
-
- The Amiga word-processor's are both coming along, but nothing like the
- quantum leap from Pro Write to Final Copy II was, and little of the huge
- range of usefulness of Word Perfect and Word. I know R&D and programming
- all costs money as does marketing, but users wanting functional features
- would probably be inclined to pay for it. With Windows '95, PC'ers
- finally got an OS like Mac/Amiga '89. But we still don't have a word
- processor with the features of Word/WP '91.
-
- Every time I have to take a disk with a plain ASCII text file to someone
- else on my project, I wonder if the Amiga is really worth any more money to
- upgrade hardware or software. Killer programs sell computers, not the
- other way around. But without the programs, the choir can only stand so
- much preaching, and only shell out so many bucks to the preacher.
-
- Lately when asked what kind of computer I have, I mumble something about
- an Amiga, "kind of like a home version of Unix". Heck, my only major Amiga
- purchase in the last year was PCTask ($140) so I could run an
- epidemiology program. Without the cross-platform compatibility at even
- the word-processor level, I just can't justify spending serious money on the
- Amiga anymore!
-
- Before people say to "just get an IBM", I say that I prefer the Amiga
- interface and OS-power over anything else out there. If all I wanted was
- to play DOOM (the PC killer app that made multimedia home machines take
- off), I'd sell my trusty A1200 in a second.
-
- But my money and my loyalty, not to mention my OS preference, is with
- Amiga. Escom/AT has saved the machine - now it's up to the industry software
- leaders to give people the tools they want to justify continuing the machine!
-
- David Jarvis
-
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