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Article #1757Re: Manual floppy eject (Mac)
From: Mike Noreen
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 00:54
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. Newsgroups trimmed. MVH: Mike Noreen
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