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- From: Neil Brewitt <neilb@cityscape.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:51:26 +0100
- Organization: Cityscape Internet Services
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- David Corn wrote:
-
- > Tell me how you'd load a Word 6.0 or Word 2.0 file, then?
- > I suspect that is the most common file format at my office, and
- > thousands of other offices. What would you do? With graphics and
- > such intact, please.
-
- I must say that in my 4 or five years of playing with Amigas, I have
- never come across an application that can't load in its own files without
- crashing (Word Perfect, Word), or mysteriously and apparently randomly plays
- around with my data (Word).
-
- Re Word 2.0 files, I'd be grateful if you could tell me how I'm supposed
- to read them since Microsoft didn't see fit to allow WordPad to recognise
- the older format of Word files.
-
- The only things the amiga really needs right now is horsepower and decent
- memory protection, IMO. That's *all* I miss when I go home to my '3000 from
- this box. I don't miss the lame "multitasking", nor the level of abstraction
- presented to the user. I *still* don't know how half of the apps here work,
- because everything is wizards and helpers, so much that I don't think anybody
- remembers how everything works any more. In "protecting" the user from the
- nastiness of computing life, Microsoft have filled this machine with
- unconfigurable, bland, featureless jell-o.
-
- Yes, I am dumb enough to buy amigas, and as soon as I get speed and
- crash-protection, I'll bring my amiga into work and lose this Win95 box.
-
- Neil.
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