Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Desktop III USAF Contract
Message-ID: <2688@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 27 Sep 88 17:38:27 GMT
References: <4154@louie.udel.EDU> <604@afit-ab.arpa> <9389@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <9389@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com writes:
> Re: Ashton-Tate and others porting product to 680x0 architecture:
> 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?

Because the 3B1 port would be the basis for ports to other Unix
systems, such as the 386, while the Amiga port would be entirely Amiga-
specific.
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