11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
10:23 a.m.
Tandy. The 2000 was quirky enough that a lot of
software ported to it didn't
behave as it was supposed to, and it never sold well enough for the software
makers to care much about fixing the problems. Tandy had a hard time
convincing software developers to support the 2000, and was rumored to have
paid Lotus $250,000 to port 1-2-3. My guess is that Microsoft made less than
a whole-hearted effort to port Xenix as cleanly as it could have.
That could be true concerning the port. The 2000 did have
some nice software ported to it though, just not enough. Though the
machine did have it's quirks, it's unfortunate that it was largely
ignored because programmers chose to bang the hardware directly.
It's actually quite a nice machine.
Jeff
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