Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad 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 References: <4154@louie.udel.EDU> <604@afit-ab.arpa> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 23 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 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]