papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (11/30/88)
Excerpted from the Nov. 28, 1988 issue of InfoWorld, in Notes from The Field, Robert X. Cringely's rumor section: "AMIGUS, AMIGA, AMIGO There is always a black sheep or two, and our family has Uncle Murray and me. Murray is a kind of suburban mountain man who taught me as a child to recognize and follow the tracks of many animals -- foxes, deer, women. "Tell us about this job of yours, Bobby," Uncle Murray leered, draping his arm all too comfortably around Pammy. So I told them about WordPerfect 6.0 for OS/2, which will be ported from 6.0 for the *Commodore Amiga*. 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" Enjoy. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (12/01/88)
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
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) (12/02/88)
In article <7794@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >>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. Frankly, I wish they'd used a few _less_ Amiga features. Or maybe I should say *misused* a few less Amiga features. They've badly overused windowing in my opinion. Every requester appears in its own window, sometimes taking over a second to appear. Instead of moving through the menus almost instantaneously on an IBM, where all wp has to do is redraw the bottom line, the Amiga version opens windows for each level of menus, taking 6 or 8 seconds to do what could have taken less than 1 on an IBM (once you know what you're doing). Tedious. Overall, I found the Amiga version of wp very nice as I was learning it, but once I knew the ins and outs of the menus and *knew* what I wanted to do, I felt very hampered by the slow response. Assuming this *RUMOR* about 6.0 is right, I hope they address this problem. -- --- Eric Kennedy ejkst@cisunx.UUCP