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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
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- Subject: Re: VistaPro & clones
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.103609.6395@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:36:09 EST
- References: <1993Jan2.201806.27708@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <1993Jan2.201806.27708@samba.oit.unc.edu>, John.Carver@launchpad.unc.edu (John Carver) writes:
- >
- > You know that program called VistaPro for the Amiga?
- >
- > There is a mention of it in this month's Popular Science, page 45,
- > "Electronics Newsfront", but not the Amiga version. It says:
- >
- > "... Terra-forming Mars or taking walks around Crater Lake, for example,
- > are both possibile with Virtual Reality Labs new $130 Vistapro landscape
- > generator for IBM compatibles..."
- >
- > No mention of Amigas, or the fact that this is hardly new and that the
- > same software, written for the Amiga in the first place, costs a lot
- > less than $130. Maybe we should write to them and say, "This program
- > has been available for Amigas for years, and is in fact a port to
- > MS-DOS'. In addition, the Amiga has other similar products such as
- > Scenery Animator."
-
- Yes, I've noticed this too. I think the reason is is that most
- people who use PCs and MACs see the Amiga as a toy ( ignorant
- SOBs ) and if the software products like VistaPro, SuperBase,
- and Mathematica advertise versions for the Amiga, then they will
- not be taken seriously. Remember PC users are a touchy and
- insecure bunch. They have to be constantly reassured that the
- PC is the best and most capable or they will whine and stomp
- their feet. Could you imagine if, suddenly, the computing powers
- that be declared that the Amiga was a very capable and desireable
- system, what havoc that would wreck? Wives would be telling their
- husbands that they were jerks for buying that clone, bosses would be
- screaming at their computer people for being ignorant. etc. etc.
-
- Sales of all the PC-Cheerleading magazines would plummet and no one
- would buy the "How to use your boot-leg copy of MicroSoft Excel"
- books. Naturally, there would be a huge economic crisis, the US would
- fall to the Japanese and the Communists would regain power in the
- former Soviet-Union.
-
- Imagine next time you're at lunch and you overhear the two people
- talking at the next table about how they finaly got the latest
- screen saver working on their PC system and fixed the autoexec.bat
- /EMM386.EXE problem. They would be crushed to know that these
- problems do not exist on the Amiga and they would be forced to
- talk about actual work problems.
-
- Well I guess you can see the results: a demoralized US with starving
- people like Somalia run by a third world dictator with a long beard.
- No, I thing things are OK the way they are.
-
-
- >
- > John
- >
- > --
- > The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- > internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
- - Fred
-
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