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- From: stevew@mksol.dseg.ti.com (steve wootton)
- Subject: Re: VistaPro & clones
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.010026.24307@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1993Jan2.201806.27708@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan3.103609.6395@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:00:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.103609.6395@desire.wright.edu> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan2.201806.27708@samba.oit.unc.edu>, John.Carver@launchpad.unc.edu (John Carver) writes:
- >>
- >> 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.
-
- > 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.
-
- Hardly a fair characterization. I would say that most people who use PCs
- either (1) don't see the Amiga at all, or (2) see the Amiga as an
- ill-supported, low-volume, niche-market graphics machine that won't run any
- of the MS-DOS or MS-Windows applications that they're used to running.
-
- I doubt that any PC user, short of a gamer, sees the Amiga as a "toy." A
- complete non-issue perhaps, but not a toy.
- --
- Steve Wootton -- stevew@mksol.dseg.ti.com
- Hey, don't blame TI... they haven't told me what to say.
-