Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!well!ewhac 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) Organization: Samuel L. Bronkowitz Productions Lines: 27 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. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor