CompuServe Messages

You seem to have no sense at all for irony, do you? Why are you taking all of this so personally? I like the Amiga. I think with the arrival of WB 2.0 and the 3000 it's finally becoming a decent computer. My 500 was fine for a low-budget machine, but with the old OS and a 68000 running at 7 megs it was a bit on the slow side. It's not the platform that's the problem, but the software for it. There is universal agreement that the productivity software for the Amiga is woefully inadequate when compared to productivity stuff for the DOS and Mac worlds. Every Amiga dealer will tell you that. The question is: WHY? Why can't developers take a good look at the state-ofthe art WPs and spreadsheets for DOS and Mac OS's and Amiga-ize them? How hard would it be to clone MS Word from the Mac to the Amiga? Why try to reinvent the wheel when it's already been invented? That doesn't mean you couldn't improve on Word or Excel, just that they should be the benchmarks. And I don't buy this argument that little companies can t compete with the big boys. All you have to do is look at Fox Software. They kicked the pants off the big boys in the database world, both in the DOS realm-where the others had a real big headstart–and in the Mac realm. They were so good at doing what they do the MS just bought them out. Fox started out a few years ago with just a handful of employees and a good idea. I happen to know that's the case because the company is in my backyard. It's a question of a total commitment to excellence and quality. And I think your defensive attitude indicates that perhaps your company is lacking in that commitment. Believe me I will let your company know what a jerk you've been about this business and I hope they deal with you in an appropriate manner. I'm not some computer nerd who has nothing better to do than argue about the fine point of operating systems and mimcroprocessors. I'm a 40-year-old writer and television producer who has spent thousands of hours on word processors in the last 10 years. I know what works and what doesn't and I know what quality