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- From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
- Message-ID: <bruce.0dgd@zuhause.MN.ORG>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:11:14 GMT
- References: <C022Bw.AwM@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec30.210438.6678@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <C03GDA.HoJ@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C03GDA.HoJ@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > I stated that there is no Amiga CD-ROM or (good) productivity software
- >available for the Amiga. Perhaps my qualifying productivity software with the
- >word "good" confused people. I did this because the Amiga does have some
- >productivity software available, but no really good productivity software
- >available. Perhaps if I had stated "there is no CD-ROM or productivity
- >software available for the Amiga", leaving out the word "good", it would
- >have made more sense. But then people would have countered by naming apps
- >like Final Copy which are productivity apps, but not very good productivity
- >apps.
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- It's tough to counter a Marc Barrett argument. Just what are "good" productivity
- apps? Apparently anything written for any machine EXCEPT the Amiga. Seriously,
- most of the Amiga WP software is comparable to the WP software one gets in packages
- like MS Works. It's true that WP5.1, MS Word and Ami-Pro are a step above the Amiga
- WP, but many of those features that are lacking in the Amiga WP software aren't used
- by most DOS/Mac users. The two areas where I'd say the Amiga is way behind Mac/DOS
- apps are spreadsheets and databases.
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- bruce@zuhause.mn.org
- Youth is wasted on the young.
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