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- From: lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad)
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.205854.6461@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- References: <1hqtqoINN395@phakt.usc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58:54 GMT
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- David Leslie (dleslie@phakt.usc.edu) wrote:
- > In article lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad) writes:
- > >Marc N. Barrett (barrett@iastate.edu) wrote:
- > >> I doubt it would uplift me. Even in Europe there is no CD-ROM or good
- > >> productivity software available for the Amiga.
- > >That's true Marc, CygnusEd Professional, SAS C 6.1, Video Toaster's
- > >software, Real 3D 2.0, they all suck, they're lousy and all inferior
- > >to even most basic MicroSoft products. And of course we all know how
- > >one definately can not hook all those CD-ROMs available via SCSI. God
- > >you're pathetic, Marc.
- >
- > Look, I know it is natural to bash Marc Barrett, but it is important
-
- :-)
-
- > not to ignore possible underlying truths. The fact is that there is
- > a severe shortage quality productivity software. The titles you mention
-
- Sure there is shortage, but that is not what Marc said. Marc said that
- there is _no_ good productivity software for Amiga at all.
-
- > Those five applications, IMHO, make clones+windows more useful than
- > the amiga. I mean, Real 3-d and the toaster have limited use. Do
-
- You can't say this: is Microsloth Word a better choise for someone who
- makes 3d-animations, than Real 3D? The fact that clones have better
- word processors and spreadsheets does not make them more useful for
- everyone. Sure I'd like to have a superhyper word processor, but I
- could not afford to buy is, so it's not at all more usefull for more
- than a simple text editor or a simpler word processor.
-
- > you have a toaster? I don't. At some point hardware superiority
-
- A live in a PAL-country and there is no PAL-toasters, so no. And I
- would not have any uses for it either.
-
- > becomes irrelevent when software is so obviously inferior, or even
-
- I don't think that graphics software is a problem with Amiga, do you?
- There are some areas where software base on Amiga is inferior, but if
- you really think it, you should realize that 99% of PC owners never use
- more than 10% of the features of some whiz-bang word processor Amiga
- does not have.
-
- Sorry if I sounded a bit tense, I'm just a bit tired, haven't slept
- much lately.
-
- --
- Jarkko Lindblad | sleep my friend and you will see
- lindblad@cc.helsinki.fi | that dream is my reality
- ------------------------| they keep me locked up in this cage
- - MetallicA - | can't they see it's why my brain say rage
-