[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Michael Kraemer]

Paul Sture schrieb:

> 
> I was given a free copy and tried it. I can't remember why I stopped 
> using it. 

Lack of apps? No native WinWord available?

> In the UK at least, everyone seemed to be pro MS, and indeed 
> a former colleague came out with the expression "You don't get fired for 
> buying Microsoft".

You shall be "compatible", otherwise you're fired.


> 
> Shame.  Amiga still has a good reputation among those who used it.
> 

Oh, there are still quite a few people using it, albeit for
hobbyist purposes only.
I still have three of them, actually four, counting the
new PPC-based SAM as an Amiga since it runs AmigaOS 4.1.
And there are new designs in the pipeline, e.g.
the X1000, using the low-power PPC Apple didn't want.
Or the Natami, a native 68K design which resumes
the classic tradition, but with current chip sets.
Kind of "what could have been if C= didn't die",
or, in DEC terms, "let's build a VAXstation 4000+ with USB
and modern gfx".

In fact the VMS community could learn a bit from the Amiga.
At least the lesson "how to survive once the parent company
has gone belly up" :-)
VMS (community) is now approximately at the stage the
Amiga was maybe 15 years ago.