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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!resumix!gary
- From: gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary Lin)
- Subject: Re: Borland is stupid
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.145741.22830@resumix.portal.com>
- Keywords: Quattro Pro Lotus
- Sender: news@resumix.portal.com
- Organization: Resumix Inc.
- References: <1992Sep11.234036.6611@resumix.portal.com> <1992Sep14.035012.25420@genghis.borland.com> <1992Sep14.161346.17205@resumix.portal.com> <193n6jINNm2v@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:57:41 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
-
- >gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary M. Lin) writes:
- >>I don't see any Borland suits at trade shows pushing anything except
- >>goofy buttons that no one wants. Then again, what are you waiting for?
- >We don't wear suits -- well only gorilla suits anyhow.
-
- Yes, of course your hairyness.
-
- >>Microsoft to finish NT on MIPS and Alpha, so I can run Excel and blow
- >>the socks off QPro? Okay, so who cares if Lotus ported 1-2-3 for IBM
- >>mainframes, but at least they know they can do it on a non-PC system.
- >NT - plegm-T -- porting to more than one processor family; what a concept!
- >I say port to nextstep! (Thats how I'm hoping to get the developers kit
- >anyhow).
-
- But then NeXTStep won't work with YOUR graphics board will it now?
-
- >>Then again, I just MIGHT be still upset at Borland for selling me
- >>SPRINT as the greatest word-processor since sliced bread. Grrrrrrr!!
- >Yeah but what other word processor will allow you to write the prime sieve
- >in its macro language?
-
- Did I buy it because it's a programmer's shell? Nooooooo. I was BADLY
- mistaken it was much better word processor. Ha! Damned thing won't even
- do WYSIWYG.. The current issue of ComputerWorld says Borland lacks a real
- word processor. I'll betcha they'll write one and CHARGE me $75 to
- upgrade to it then, and throw in some outdated game while they're at it.
-
- But will it read Quattro files? Nooooooo.
-
- >--
- >The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU |
- >Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head? | |
- >DoD#0667 "Just a friend of the beast." | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU |
- >2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET |
-
- Yes, you are a FROOFROO head. Get real.
-
- Gary M. Lin
- gary@resumix.portal.com
-