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- From: root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
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- Message-ID: <root.02uf@rkamiga.UUCP>
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.075k@amicol.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:57:57 EST
- Organization: Rick's Amiga
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- In article <Paula_Lieberman.075k@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
- >re article by Philip McDonnough: From what my friends who own Macs,
- >including some who make their livings from doing Mac consulting, migration
- >to a Quadra fom a system 6 machine is a LOT of trouble, and a lot more
- >expensive than just the price of the Quadra.... their old System 6
- >software doesn't work, unless they buy new versions that are both System 7
- >AND Quadra compatible. That doesn't go over too well..... One friend who's
- >a Mac consultant hasn't gone over to System 7 because "I can't afford the
- >cost of upgrading all my software." Amiga users have it a LOT better than
- >that! I haven't heard that there are many programs that break on the Amiga
- >4000 that run on Amiga 3000 -- I did hear, yesterday, that ProPage has some
- >problems on the 4000, but that PageStream runs ok. However, people who
- >migrated to Quadras for increased speed in scientific and DTP apps
- >discovered that their primary apps didn't want to run with the cache
- >enabled, if they ran at all..... and when the problems got fixed, it took
- >time and upgrade $$.....
-
- Worse than that. A friend of mine works at MIT Lincoln Labs. They have a
- fairly large network of Macs that represents all models of the Mac line.
- They also have support agreements with Apple, so they always have the latest
- upgrades and patches. Since they migrated to System 7 and 7.01, they have
- had lots of problems with systems unexpectedly locking up. It has become
- SOP to stop what you are doing every ten minutes, and save everything to
- disk.
-
- Real productive.
-
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- Rick Kelly Rick's Amiga Framingham, Mass.
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