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Re: Manual floppy eject (Mac)

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From: Mike Noreen
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 00:54
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>>Then you all must favor the Amiga:
>
>...
>>Anything else?
>
>Yes. I can't believe you'd seriously recommend an antiquated,
>unsupported, dead operating system running on a dead end machine. It
>was god in it's time but it never received either serious support or
>acceptance. It's too bad it didn't catch on because it was neat. But now it simply isn't.
>

Well, technically it is still more advanced than either Copland 
or Win95, in that it is fully 32-bit, fully preemptively 
multitasking, fully modular, fully OO, realtime and a lot of 
other stuff that other operating systems are still struggling 
to achieve. And it did really handle removable media just the 
way that guy said - both System7 and Windows have abysmal 
handling of removable media, for no good reason other than 
backwards compatibility.

As to dead and unsupported... Well, AmiTech is currently 
producing 40,000 Amigas per month, just three months after 
having re-started production from scratch. It's not quite dead 
yet.

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From: Mike Noreen <ev-michael@mail.nrm.se>
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Subject: Re: Manual floppy eject (Mac)
Date: 8 Oct 1995 00:54:57 GMT
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