Re: Dream OS

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From: pierrot
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 17:03

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In <DCM6q3.9Lo@seas.ucla.edu>, jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) writes:
>> Left-Field Marshal Eric S. Smith (esmith@ivory.trentu.ca) wrote:
>
>> > Okay, I'll stop now.  The only UI I hate more than the Mac's is the nasty, lo
>> > res, 4 colour Amiga one.  Looked like a CGA nightmare--but I suspect that
>> > nicer forms of it exist, and that I was just looking at primitive machines. 
>> > Enh.
>
>	I agree wholeheartedly, as far as Workbench 1.3 is concerned.
>Unfortunately, this is the last version I ever had as my A500 became obsolete.
>Does anyone know the latest version of AmigaDOS (even if it isn't available
>any more) and it it's any good.  I would bet that it would be, if it isn't for
>the lack of memory protection, from what I've heard...
>
>--Arthur Jerijian
>  jerijian@seas.ucla.edu

The last version of AmigaDOS produced by Commodore was version 3.1. I've
never used it, but I've seen pictures of it, and it looks very nice. It's also
supposed to be more advanced than any PC or Mac OS. I don't know if Escom
has a newer version in the works, but they probably do.

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Subject: Re: Dream OS
Date: 9 Aug 1995 17:03:48 GMT
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