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From: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic)
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Subject: Re: Windows on Amiga...
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Date: 27 Nov 90 18:38:28 GMT
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In a previous article, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) says:

(Info about the advantages of a mswindow.library for MS-Windows programs
 deleted)


>	Something similar could be done for Macintosh, but Apple
>would flip out and sue everyone in sight. If it were a PD job,
>however, there couldn't be a law suit.
>	Any "opinions" on this from Commodore sorts?

Just in from the latest MacWeek (vol 4 no 40):

Microsoft technology to tie Mac to Windows.

What's good for Windows users is good for Mac users. At least that seemed
to be Microsoft Corps.'s message at Comdex/Fall '90 last week when the 
company announced it also would embrace the Mac with its new Windows
technologies.

Wrapped in a haze of terms such as "linking" and "embedding" (see related
story, Page 8), the technologies will take on flesh as operating system
extensions to both the Windows and Macintosh environments, the company
said.

(more text not typed in)

But why would Macintosh application developers use Microsoft's facilities
rather than those built into System 7.0?

Two reasons, said Mike Maples, Microsoft vice president of applications:
consistency across platforms and because Microsoft does it better.

(rest of article not typed in)


There you have it folks, at first I found the idea of MS-Windows on the
Amiga kind of hard to swallow, but it could be the key to getting some
big name software.
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