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From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows for Amiga?? Maybe!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.172202.28360@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 90 17:22:02 GMT
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Reply-To: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
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> cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa) writes:
> This isn't a flame, just an opinion:
> I really don't care for the idea of Windows for the amiga(or mac for that
> much). Why should we be the ones to succumb to another OS?

First, I don't think there's any worry that Windows will become a
universal OS.  The computer world will have diversity for quite some time.

But since you can already run MSDOS, MacOS, the ST OS, and Unix on the
Amiga... ya might as well throw in Windows or portable OS/2 as well ;-).
Just means more choices.

As far as "why should we be the ones"... well, Amiga owners are 'trapped'
in the same way as Apple owners:  the OS and hardware are available only
from one manufacturer (CBM).  Because no one else _can_ "succumb" to the
Amiga, any OS standardization must come _to_ the Amiga, not from it.

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