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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows for Amiga?? Maybe!!
Message-ID: <14638@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 90 18:30:54 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.172202.28360@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>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.

Of course there are different reasons for this,  Mac OS is only
available from Apple, because they won't let anybody else do it.
Amiga OS is only available from C= because nobody could beat them in
price.   (Although if someone could manage an Amiga portable, It
would be very nice)

                                              Rick Blewitt
					      rblewitt@ucsd.edu