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From: thad@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Desktop III USAF Contract
Message-ID: <9389@cup.portal.com>
Date: 24 Sep 88 04:37:33 GMT
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Re: Ashton-Tate and others porting product to 680x0 architecture:

dBASE III has been released for the AT&T 3B1 (aka UNIX-PC aka 7300) for
some time.

Microsoft WORD has also been ported to the 3B1.

The 3B1 (see June 1986 BYTE) is a 68010, 10 MHz, running a variant of
AT&T System V Release 2+ with some BSD extensions.

I also have Supercomp 20 and MultiPlan on the 3B1.  These are all documented
in the nice red AT&T slipcases, etc.

Those, and other, products run native on the 68010.  I have one 3B1 flanking
each Amiga, and the two systems complement each other nicely.

Far fewer 3B1/7300/UNIX-PC have been sold than have Amigas, yet there was
NO hesitancy on the part of Ashton-Tate, Microsoft, etc. porting their
product to THAT machine.  Why the delay porting to the Amiga?



Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]