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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: VistaPro & clones
- Message-ID: <72822@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 14:56:22 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1993Jan2.201806.27708@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- <1993Jan3.103609.6395@desire.wright.edu>
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- > 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.
- [...]
-
- Nevermind the fact that the Amiga version of Vista Pro has more features
- in it than the MS DOS version has. And it renders much faster. I've
- had them running side by side, with the same .scape file loaded, and
- as close-to-same features set up in the control panels, one on a
- 386SX machine, one on a 2500/30, and it was no contest, speed wise.
-
- Semi-related to this, I was reading ClariNet Newsbytes yesterday (I can't
- repost the article here due to copyright restrictions) but a new product
- press release for a Windows product had been posted. The sole purpose of
- this new $99 product is to let Windows users delete disk directories.
- ::rubbing eyes:: yeah you read it right. It deletes disk directories
- and their subdirs and their contents if any. Now I don't pretend to
- be intimate with Windows, in fact we haven't even slept together, but
- apparently there are some horrible genuflections one has to go thru
- to delete a Windows dir and its contents, without having to resort to
- going down to DOS to do it. So this $99 product lets a Windows user
- delete dirs and subdirs and contents without having to drop down to DOS.
- Imagine that. For a mere hundred bucks.
-
- And here all this time I thought the Pet Rock was the biggest quick
- money scam of all time... silly me.
-
- Harv
-
- >
- >>
- >> --
- >> 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
-