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I can't help but comment on this, either. I'm not responding to you in particular, Jim, but you were a good place to start. Without hard facts behind it, I've always regarded the "recouped its costs in 60 days" story as largely apocryphal. Even without the facts, it's a ridiculous assertion. WP-PC had a great reputation and immense market share, not to mention the effort behind the code that was ported to the Amiga. That's a "cost", too, that's not accounted for by this story. A better story: A small team ported some PC code to the Amiga. Upon release, its "profits" covered the cost of the port, which were next to nothing, if you don't count the rest of the company. That did not mean that WP-Amiga would sustain itself as a profitable product. As time has shown, it couldn't. Given the flush reception of the PC-like version 1.0 of WP-Amiga, why would WP Corp. think that the product would need to be "Amiga-ized" in order to survive? The opposite is easier to argue: that any WP-Amiga would remain profitable if it remained a close clone of the ever-popular PC version. If it didn't look like a PC-duck and act like a PC-duck, then why would people buy it? If it didn't resemble "Word Perfect", then how could they sell it as such? I'm appalled by the depth of cruelty in the suggestions of people who encourage WP Corp. to continue developing an unprofitable product on an unprofitable platform. Perhaps they should ask WP Corp. to burn piles of cash, too, to help cure the savings and loan crisis.