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- From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Save the Amiga? Want MS Word?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.152140.2077@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:21:40 GMT
- References: <66273@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
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- In article <66273@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt2038a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2038a
- gt2038a BROWNING,CHRIS SHERMAN) writes:
- > Here's some food for thought
- >
- q> Why doesn't C= make a port of windows NT for the amiga. I'm not say that
- >
- >
- > --
- > ChRiS BrOwNiNg Give me an Georgia Tech Research Institute
- > Computer Engineering AMIGA or give "Neural Networks 'R Us"
- > gt2038a@prism.gatech.edu me NOTHING ESML /EIB
-
-
- First off, Windows NT is held as the property (copyright) or Microsoft.
- If someone simply
- ports the product over to the Amiga(i.e. recompiles their existing code)
- they would
- be breaking the legality of the copyright.
-
- Secondly, It makes a computer look awfully bad when the parent company
- has to build
- things that make its computer emulate another. Just like it was a
- stupid decision by
- Commodore to ever make IBM clones (It's as if they were saying "Well,
- our computer isn't
- the best, so buy our IBM Clone). They were attempting to compete against
- their own
- platform.
-
- Besides, we already have the bridgeboard that give us IBM compatibility.
- Commodore doesn't need to spend time working on making their computers
- compatible with
- competitors... they need to spend time making their computers more
- superior to their
- competitors.
-
- And remember the Commodore 128? Look how many software titles came out
- for it. (Hardly
- any). That was because every Commodore 128 came with a C-64, so what do
- software
- publishers do? They write software for the C-64... Afterall, They want
- to sell as many
- as possible, and if they made it for the 64, anyone with a 128 could run
- it anyways.
- (There were few commercial products made specifically for the 128).
-
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