Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:52883 comp.sys.amiga:54531 comp.sys.atari.st:27326 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!newton.physics.purdue.edu!piner From: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Richard Piner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: One world, One CPU, One OS Message-ID: <3469@newton.physics.purdue.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 07:00:41 GMT References: <93.26244db9@desire.wright.edu> Reply-To: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 13 In article <93.26244db9@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu writes: > 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.) You ask for it, you got it. OS9/68K can be had for all three machines. Now if we could just convince all three companies to use OS9/68K as their basic OS we would be in computer heaven. Now that the new RAVE software is out, some real fancy graphics could be done, and even that would be portable between machines. It will never happen. R. Piner