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- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 01:53:06 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Can Final Writer do tables?
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4ed9@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 12 Feb 96 David Jarvis wrote to All:
-
- >> When will both of you get your act together and catch up with Microsoft
- >> Word 5 for Mac?
-
- DJ> The Amiga word-processor's are both coming along, but nothing like the
- DJ> quantum leap from Pro Write to Final Copy II was, and little of the
- DJ> huge range of usefulness of Word Perfect and Word. I know R&D and
- DJ> programming all costs money as does marketing, but users wanting
- DJ> functional features would probably be inclined to pay for it. With
- DJ> Windows '95, PC'ers finally got an OS like Mac/Amiga '89. But we
- DJ> still don't have a word processor with the features of Word/WP
- DJ> '91.
-
- Indeed. I did some point-by-point research on this. While WW5 is
- now about comparable with MS Word 3.01 for the Mac (sorry, don't use
- Windows myself) from 1987 (!) feature-wise, it still has not reached
- the level of Mac WordPerfect 2.1 from 1991, let alone the current
- V3.0a.
-
- Same goes for FW4.
-
- Only in "dtp-like", graphical layout features, both Amiga WP's are
- about equal or in some aspects superior when compared to those
- programs, so both Softwood and Digita have some catching-up to do
- in the real WORD processing department, IMHO.
-
- DJ> Before people say to "just get an IBM", I say that I prefer the Amiga
- DJ> interface and OS-power over anything else out there. If all I wanted
- DJ> was to play DOOM (the PC killer app that made multimedia home machines
- DJ> take off), I'd sell my trusty A1200 in a second.
-
- No need, it runs fine on Shapeshifter and a 040/060 ;)
-
- DJ> But my money and my loyalty, not to mention my OS preference, is with
- DJ> Amiga. Escom/AT has saved the machine - now it's up to the industry
- DJ> software leaders to give people the tools they want to justify
- DJ> continuing the machine!
-
- Hear hear. Nevertheless, what has been done by both companies with
- limited budgets when compared to the "Big Boys" is certainly not bad.
-
- Regards, Ruud
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