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- From: L-Bueno@cup.portal.com (Louis Alberto Bueno)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a
- Message-ID: <72757@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 16:35:54 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <C01GsK.L4C@news.iastate.edu>
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- dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
- >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.
-
- It depends on what your particular "productivity" is, mon ami.
-
- >The titles you mention
- >are nice, but aren't very useful for a typical user.
-
- Can you please define what is a "typical user" in the Amiga
- community? :-) Where I'm from, most of us are artists, but I wouldn't
- dare say that this is representative of the Amiga community at large.
- I have a friend who is from Bavaria, and he, as well as most of his
- friends, are programmers on the Amiga. Would this be "typical" as well?
- Do you see my point?
-
- >I'll tell you
- >what is missing, and that is software of the quality of : Word for
- >Windows, Lotus 1-2-3 for windoze, Quicken, PackRat, and WinFax pro.
-
- If this is an indication of what you consider to be useful
- software for *yourself,* then the markets the Amiga seems to service
- won't be of much help to you, I'm afraid.
-
- >Those five applications, IMHO, make clones+windows more useful than
- >the amiga. I mean, Real 3-d and the toaster have limited use.
-
- To you :-)
-
- >Do
- >you have a toaster? I don't.
-
- Obviously you don't need one. So what's the point?
-
- >At some point hardware superiority
- >becomes irrelevent when software is so obviously inferior, or even
- >non-existant. Hey, the up-side is that lack of software is easier
- >to fix than a messed up OS or crappy hardware. It just takes some
- >money and pressue from C=.
-
- The up-side I see here is that you've made a strong case for
- purchasing a Clone for yourself :-)
-
- Regards,
-
- --Louis
-