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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:38:06 GMT
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- (Colas Nahaboo) writes:
- >Word perfect is a very old program, with a user-hostile user interface.
- >People who bought amigas expect a more user-friendly prgrm than that.
- >Either they want power and buy AmigaTeX, or they want user-friendliness, and
- >Final Copy (and others) are competing on this niche, or they buy amax and just
- >run a Mac program.
- >
- >Word perfect can only suceed in a PC market with customers with low
- >expectations.
- >
- >PS: What we need is frame maker!
-
- I have used Frame Maker on a Sun workstation. Excellent program.
- Final Copy is headed in the right direction... Maybe they will make FC
- into a sort-of Frame Maker for the Amiga ! DJ.
-
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- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM
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