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Article #23417Re: Last time on this one
From: Warwick Allison
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:32
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:32
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dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
>There's no Atari CLI;
>they're all third party products. In other words, there is no
>equivalent to DOS in the Atari world -- as far as ATARI is concerned
>there IS no CLI.
Oh, and as far as IBM are concerned, there is no **OS** for PC's, because
DOS is written by Microsoft, which, when I last looked was NOT a subsidiary
of IBM.
Dave, you're clutching at very thin, straw-like weapons now.
Atari is in the business of making COMPUTER. Not software. That's YOUR
job.
--
Warwick
ps. Who wrote "COMMAND.COM", the "CLI" for MS-DOS?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Last time on this one Message-ID: <11654@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 13 Jan 93 00:32:42 GMT References: <1iojg0INNjna@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan11.005905.1862@solace.hsh.se> <1isna6INNonm@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <1itbngINN4t4@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 24