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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Abel's question and an Abel's trivia quiz
Message-ID: <433@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 16:55:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocky.433
Posted: Mon Jul 20 16:55:52 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 00:41:06 EDT
References: <432@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <432@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> I wrote:
>... They have a total of 568 products listed, 367 software
>(all Amiga specific), 79 hardware (almost all Amiga specific) ...

Looking through Amazing Computing, I see that almost every second ad
is for a product not listed in Abel's product list. A friend of mine
also pointed out that Abel's has some products that they are not in
the list... So don't take the "367" figure as the number of programs out
there for the Amiga. I imagine we're looking at, what, probably 1000
commercial programs for the Amiga, no? Any more-accurate figures, anyone?

And we should remember that there is so much high quality PD stuff out
there (Emacs, mCad, VDraw, VT100+Kermit, Draco, VD0:, DME, ...).

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu