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From: cameron@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (Cameron Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows for Amiga?? Maybe!!
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Date: 23 Nov 90 06:08:01 GMT
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Not wanting to put a dampener on this discussion, but surely Unix/X is the
emerging OS/GUI multi-platform choice. Think about it. On many of the
machines out there, there is a Unix/X option - even if it is not the native
combination. For this reason, I think Commodore have done it just right (by
offering a choice that conforms to this multi-platform "standard")

Perhaps a more interesting observation might be that MicroSoft are genuinely
worried that the enormous development costs they have invested into Windows
will not prove as profitable as they might have hoped. Apart from their
applications, they are left with MS-Dos (most DOS machines can run some
flavour of Unix - good alternative when DOS users 'grow' out of DOS), OS/2 (not
as successful as they originally hoped - what can it really offer that Unix,
and AmigaDOS can't), and Windows (speed/porting problems with 'most' DOS
packages). If I were looking for winning software to invest in, these may
not rate as highly as some that I could find elsewhere in the computing 
world. This of course is digressing into speculation - my original point is
that Unix is widely available on most platforms, as is X for windowing, and
OSF/Motif for the look-and-feel. Why bother with Windows?

Cameron Stephenson                     ph. +61 75 951220
Bond University
Gold Coast    Australia