wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (12/01/88)
Here is another interesting tidbit that popped up in the November
28 issue of Infoworld. See "Notes from the Field by Robert X.
Cringely" on page 94:
"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 draphing his arm all too comfortably
around Pammy.
So I told them about Word Perfect 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 Word Perfect 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.
'You call that a secret?' Murray replied,..."
I like it!
--Bill