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- From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Bus Standards
- Message-ID: <C0AJ0u.7A4@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 18:22:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.221240.10565@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
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- >>only because instead of trying to ADVANCE this "open architecture" C=
- >>set off with it's own, you can't get our MS-Excel, and we are just
- >>awakening to your multimedia. It's unfortunate that we have all this
- >>wasted energy duplicating work.
- >
- >No, the inavailability of Excel is entirely the result of corporate
- >politics, not bus standards. As others have said before, there is nothing
- >preventing MS, Borland or Lotus from developing Amiga versions of their
- >programs. But as recent movements in the Mac market attest, many
- >developers would like to create applications for a single OS.
-
- It's not politics, it's profits! IF the resources that would be used
- to make an Amiga version can be put towards improving the PC version
- (even marginally) the profit potential is greater in improving PC
- market share.
-
- >
- >But, Unix code is highly portable.
- >
-
- *SOME* unix code is portable.
-