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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: InfoWorld's Notes From The Field
Summary: HA!
Message-ID: <7794@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 09:02:47 GMT
References: <13712@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "...Poisonous fish..."  -- Kentucky Fried Movie

In article <13712@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>Excerpted from the Nov. 28, 1988 issue of InfoWorld, in Notes 
>from The Field, Robert X. Cringely's rumor section:
>
> [ ... ] So I told them about WordPerfect 6.0 for OS/2, which will be
>ported from 6.0 for the *Commodore Amiga*.

	I knew it!!!  I'll bet they have it up and running under OS/2 faster
than any other vendor trying to port a similar product from MS-DOS.

	I was right.  The only people qualified to write for OS/2 are those
with previous experience in multitasking OS's.

>It seems that the
>Amiga operating system is the favored multitasker for WordPerfect
>programmers, who wrote WP 4.1 from scratch for the Amiga after
>the company had given up on a DOS port and sold the development
>machines to the programmers for home use"
>
	From scratch, eh?  From what I've *heard*, it doesn't make as much
use of Amiga's features as one might hope.

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