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From: zimm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Pad specs
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.223413.9937@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:34:13 GMT
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In article <A1441535608@thelake.mn.org> steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>Go's OS is built from the ground up. But they're just beginning to peddle
>their designs to hardware manufacturers. It's not really ``going on'' yet;
>they're just talking about it.

False; more than talk. I work with GO. The software and hardware are real and
have been shown to developers. (You're right about it not being MSDOS based,
though.)

>
>Pen Windows is yet another blast of hot air from the marketing masters at
>Redmond. They've been working on Windows for most of a decade and still
>haven't got the technology straightened out. Just what I *don't* want in a
>Dynabook: a buggy, ugly, crash-prone user interface that runs on top of
>MessyDos and requires at least a '386 running at 20mHz to be tolerably
>fast.
>

This I agree with.

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Dylan