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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 01:52:36 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4dbw@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 08 Feb 96 Porter Woodward wrote to All:
-
- PW> Well - seeing as I work in "Sun Country", it was my understanding that
- PW> Sun wanted to acquire Apple to increase their production capability.
- PW> They need more facilities to produce product at. Also, they were
- PW> interested in the applications that can be found on the Apple. Sure,
-
- They have also made some Apple apps themselves, as I found out earlier
- today.
-
- PW> they ship Solaris (a nice UNIX variant) - but one problem perrenial to
- PW> UNIX is a lack of "end user applications". You know, like MS- Word,
- PW> Excel, etc.
-
- Well, WordPerfect for Linux has been reviewed here a while ago,
- so I take it it's there. (Guess it won't run on Amiga Linux though..)
-
- PW> I don't actually work for Sun, however my corporation is the "odd
- PW> building out" in the industrial park - all the rest are Sun
- PW> Microsystems. So, that sort of stuff is pretty big news around here.
- PW> They are interested in scrapping the Macintosh line.
-
- Scrapping it? Then why bother buying it in the first place?
-
- I'd like to see 'em hooking up with AT now that the Apple deal
- bounced ;)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
-
- BTW, saw a DEC Alpha workstation running today. It's desktop is
- snappy, but not a lot more than an A1200 with some Fast-RAM. Not
- bad, considering it's about 100+ times faster...
-
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