#Open Letter to CBM
10-Oct-91 22:30:07
Sb: #15258-#Open Letter to CBM
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: Harold W. Grigdesby 76304,3030
! meg chip ram only affects too many screens at one time, not the number
(or size) of programs. I don't think that a WP, spreadsheet, database, and
telecomm program running at once should strain 1 meg of chip, it certainly
doesn't on my machine.
Let me try to convey to you why you are barking up the wrong tree.
The Amiga is a machine that works differently than the PC. That's one of
the reasons that WP takes so much flack for the incredibly crappy WP
program they foisted off on Amiga users. While there are plenty of
loyalists, with many reasons that would be dear to you (IE they have used
it elsewhere and know how, an investment they don't want to part with) the
program is trash. It looks bad, it performs worse, and it's ability to
produce the output you want is extremely limited. WP 5 may be better. We'll
see. We don't need another one of these.
MS Works is a lump. We don't need or want lumps. Some of us don't even want
users who want lumps. The best way to implement anything on the Amiga is in
programs.
aside: Person A; "The PC has TSR's, the Mac has Desk Accessories… so,
what does the Amiga have? Person B: "Programs".
If you caught it, that's a _real_ mean comment. :^) If you didn't, that's
the root of your problem.
–Ben