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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.012819.21712@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 Apr 91 01:28:19 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.172222.27446@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>Anyway, I'm not trying to flame.  I believe you probably knew some of this,
>and that your intentions were good in mentioning OS-9.  But please, write
>that "OS9 has" and "OS9 does" (present tense :-).  Thanks!  Give us a few more
>months of OS9 GUI development, and _then_ we'll be back to torch AmigaOS <g>.
	I wasn't meaning that OS/9 was dead when I used the term "had". But
rather that I was refering to a time in the past (such is the wonderfully
ambiguous english language). So saying "OS/9 *had* these features back in
the early 80's" doesn't mean it doesn't today, just that it HAD them back
then.

				Dave