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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (bthompx)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 02:32:32 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- David Nelson, regarding your message ' Re: Amiga promotion in USA.' -
-
- >W95 is much more memory-efficient than W3.x, as well as being faster.
- >You can run more programs faster in the same amount of memory.
-
- >The nay-sayers and sour-grapers greeted the release of W95 with relish -
- >it's the OS non-clone users love to hate. I too worry about the size (&
- >therefore weight) of Microsoft, but in making criticisms one has a
- >responsibility to be truthful.
-
- Of course. It is a lesson Microslop has yet to learn.
-
- >I submit the following proposition to you: the hatred of Microsoft in the
- >Amiga community has contributed to the Amiga's sorry predicament.
- >Microsoft developed software for the Mac, but not the Amiga. Niche
- >markets can be lucrative. I think they didn't bother with the Amiga
- >because of the "f* you" attitude of Amiga users. This has contributed to
- >the lack of good business software for the Amiga, which is one of the
- >main areas where the Amiga loses out to the PC. Two of the main reasons
- >people won't buy Amigas: lack of good software, and poor compatibility
- >with the pc. I think Amiga users have cut off their noses to spite their
- >faces.
-
- No, Microsoft did actualy write software for the amiga long ago. They wrote
- "amigaBasic", but made such a pig's ear of it it's unbeliveable. What we
- had was basically all the stupid msdos/pc limitations translated over and
- faithfully reproduced on the amiga! We had array size limutations (the same
- ones as on the pc); hardware banging; particularly stupid file requestors..
- There is a fair list. It was also very slow, and did not come with a
- compiler.
-
- So, no - microsoft brought there own disgrace upon themselves. They showed
- there incompetence to all, and further compounded the problem by
- demonstrating the same idiocy even on the pc.
-
- Why is it that os/2 is a better os for the pc than win95 in most every way
- (except application support) ? It runs on the same hardware, yet multitasks
- better, handles ram better, is faster, and even runs windows programs
- faster than windows ? [I have been told by PC mates].
-
- Reading a bit about microslop, how they started, how they do bussiness,
- etc, will convince you like it did me. Read 'Accidental Empires' (book;
- forget the author name. I'll Find out if your real keen). This is a very
- interesting book on the computer industry.. Lets out a few things old billy
- hopes people have forgotten, too..
-
- Microsofts programmers seem unable to write software for the amiga, and
- seem to be pretty casual about writing it for the pc too.
-
- Microsoft has an interest in control, and in keeping things the way they
- are. There is money in them thar windows 'upgrades'!
-
- Things like hidden files containing the names of all your software, which
- is sent to microslopp when you connect to MSN, and the disallowing of use
- of win95 by the military because of these trojen programs does not lend
- them goodwill from all men...
-
- >(Don't take this too seriously!)
-
- Sure. But read 'Accidental Empires'.
-
- I think you will find most amiga users generall more informed about the
- computer industry than the average pc user - and not taken in by Billy's
- Billion Dollar Bullshit :-)
-
- ...... Brendan
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