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Correction to:An OS for MAC, Amiga, AND ST!

#485
From: Bruce Barrett
Date: Mon, 12 May 1986 16:57
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In article <405@ccird1.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>In article <1040@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>>the MAC OS out.  TRIPOS would only have a chance if Amiga would consider
>>selling Intuition (their graphics/windowing software) to go with TRIPOS.
>
	The following statement is FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>I agree in part, actually, Metacompco (sp?) wrote most of the graphics
>package, Amiga had to write the "Graphics BIOS", or drivers.
>

	The Metacomco (correect spelling) people are talented, bright, and
hard workers but they did NOT write one (1) line of graphics software for
the Amiga.  They wrote the file system and most of the CLI commands (DIR,
LIST, COPY...)  They did not write Intuition, Graphics, Layers, Audio, 
Serial, Workbench,....  Just the file system.  We call this AmigaDOS.  
The 3 AmigaDOS manuals decsribe what they did.  They did NOT do anything 
in the RKM.

	OK.  Thanks, just wanted to clear that up and give credit where
credit is due.  While I'm at it there are (Commodore) programers in 
Westchester, PA who have made significant contributions too.
--Bruce Barrett
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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Correction to:An OS for MAC, Amiga, AND ST!
Message-ID: <1141@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 12:57:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1141
Posted: Mon May 12 12:57:33 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 07:54:24 EDT
References: <959@well.UUCP> <794@ccird2.UUCP> <162@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1040@cadovax.UUCP> <405@ccird1.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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