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Article #905Re: Apple's latest downgrades...
From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:00
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Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
>
> > Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > That said I would still have liked to have seen it but I don't imagine
> > > it being much more than another OS/2.
> >
> > It would have been much more than OS/2 because it would have been a
> > proper GUI Unix: the best of both worlds.
>
> I meant in terms of market share more than in substance.
Hmm... Given that Rhapsody was meant to run most Mac apps in the blue
box, I expect it would have done rather well. But it seems that MacOS X
is a better thing in many ways. I just wish Apple would produce a
version that'll run on Intel machines one way or another. (But then
again, maybe Jobs reckons that would ruin Apple's main money earning:
selling Macs.)
Rowland.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,d2d9c796b2f3760a X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) Subject: Re: Apple's latest downgrades... Date: 1998/06/19 Message-ID: <1daust2.17q9zmg7t080kN@p44.nas1.is2.u-net.net> X-Deja-AN: 364083616 References: <199805312349232491045@thebeast.demon.co.uk> <+Lf+yXAv1oc1Ewrz@renful.demon.co.uk> <199806021804451204339@thebeast.demon.co.uk> <Yx6XsKA$USd1EwlJ@renful.demon.co.uk> <1da1wrj.1p6dawn1a400jkN@p23.nas1.is2.u-net.net> <1da2t5q.cw0qmk1xbbbkcN@pwomar.demon.co.uk> <B1A4933896683FE99@pict.demon.co.uk> <1dafsfj.1oq95l31m74o8wN@p51.nas1.is2.u-net.net> <B1A98FAE96682193B@pict.demon.co.uk> <1damh66.1o9tbf4kmrfxgN@p40.nas1.is2.u-net.net> <1damzmd.gy06ar3cloxiN@tycho.demon.co.uk> <1daqqep.1rhuveaqybfpcN@p58.nas1.is2.u-net.net> <1daqvin.1s0zinra4x9ezN@pwomar.demon.co.uk> <1dasmcd.q6nrirxvyfmeN@p48.nas1.is2.u-net.net> <1dau3m1.1pkmh3n1gv39okN@pwomar.demon.co.uk> Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac