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Originally Posted by BigD
People only got PCs because their Dads needed them for work! An early 90s PC came with M$ Works and little else of use! Compared to a useful TurboPrint and Final Writer/Wordsworth/PageStream equipped Amiga it was poor! People bought them anyway!
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Indeed, all of them fine apps.
Unfortunately, none of them IBM compatible and one very disappointed Dad when he tried to edit that all important MS Word Doc he needed for Monday am.
Not saying you bought an Amiga 1200 to do Turbo Tax (you didnt). Not saying pay MS to port Word to Amiga.
But a bit of licensing or something for that propriety File Type by Commodore on behalf of these Amiga vendors may have saved poor students a PC purchase that bit longer and and made your standard 1200 that bit more saleable to your average computer illiterate.
It was all about being IBM compatible, right.