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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: One world, One CPU, One OS
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Date: 13 Apr 90 14:13:00 GMT
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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?

Perhaps now, with their high-end Mac II's and the new QuickDraw boards,
not as much as before.  Apple's strengths have traditionally been in their
software; their hardware hasn't warranted the extremely high margins they
charge for their systems.  I think they'd have to be convinced that 3rd
party Mac-clones would play for the low-end of their market, which I doubt
it exclusively would.

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