rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) (09/26/90)
When I brought my first Amiga 1000 back in the summer of 87 there were many
reasons why I brought it. Here are a few of them :
1) graphics included in word processing
2) An AI package
3) A good C-Compiler (unix compatible)
4) pictures stored in a data base
In the beginning I brought software packages (arexx,wshell,Manx-C and others)
simple because I was stupid enough to believe this ideas
If ( I support the Amiga Community )
then
the Amiga Software would become more and more diverse
and produce more products that I wanted.
However, due to the fact that the Amiga developers want to ignore the object
orientated langauges, science and mathmaticial areas, my if-then statement above
has been changed to
If ( I support the Amiga Community )
then
the Amiga software I want will never be built
This idea did not come over night , but it came after years of feeling that
Amiga developers wanted to ignore people interested in object orientated design
math and science.
Consider this, most users of the Amiga that I have met seem very intelligent
and want to do a lot of serious work for the Amiga, but a lot of them have
said that they did not have the right tools.
For example I am thinking of doing an object orientated simulation language
in C++ for a thesis next year and I wanted to do it on the Amiga. However,
I can not even started. Why can I not get started ? Simple there is not a
good C++ compiler for the Amiga (I heard about lattice and not going to spend
$300 dollars for it). However, I could do it on the mac or ibm very easily !!
By the way I do not consider the Amiga the leader in Multimedia because it has
the raw resources, but none of the stacks that the Macintosh does. For example
I could get about 1000 stacks and easily store them on cd-rom and create a
pretty good general knowledge database. Could you do this on the amiga. Yes
, but you would have to write 950 stacks at least.
Also Commodore is trying to get the Amiga in the collages and high schools of
Americia. If I was deciding which computer to buy, I would have to buy the
mac for everything, but programming circuits and geography and basic areas of
study. Why ?? Simple the mac has software that deals with genetics,physics,
history and health.
Amiga Developers if you want me to buy Amiga Software then build the software
I want. That all I ask, build the software and I will not mind buying it !!
if you do not build the software that I want then I will not buy it.
To end on a positive note I have seen some small improvements
Workbench 2.0 --> Excellent improvements, keeps upgrading the parts of it that
are good and tries to improve a lot of what is wrong. This
was an excellent upgrade which tries to upgrade the parts of
the system that were weak and keep updating the parts that
were strong.
Pert Chart --> Wow a software engineering software on the Amiga. Amiga
Developers are supposed to recreate the wheel a 1000 times
over, not go into new areas
Pro Write --> The use of subscripts and superscripts in word processing
software (other word processors may have this ability, but
I seen it there).
Small improvements, but a faint glimmer of hope !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!