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Article #11415Re: One world, One CPU, One OS
From: Jeff Martens
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 01:16
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 01:16
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In article <93.26244db9@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu writes: > Reading the articles that say how alike Amiga, Atari, and Mac users >are: > It would be nice if these users could all have one unified operating >system. (Yes, there is UNIX but not everyone has 4-8 meg of ram and 80+meg >hard disks.) What does Apple have to lose by liscensing the Mac OS to >Commodore and Atari? [ ... ] What would Apple have to gain? What would Commodore or Atari have to gain? Essentially nothing. If Amiga and ST users had wanted Macs, they would've bought Macs. I wanted something that multitasks, which the Mac doesn't (except in a very limited sense), and believe that very few Amiga users would trade AmigaDOS in for a Mac-like interface. Of course, most Mac users are also happy with their machines and wouldn't trade theirs for an Amiga. To each his own. -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Boston art museum director when asked what it means that Cincinnati art director may face a jail term: "Don't take a job in Cincinnati."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: One world, One CPU, One OS Message-ID: <79192@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 01:16:03 GMT References: <93.26244db9@desire.wright.edu> Sender: usenet_news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens <martens@cis.ohio-state.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 24