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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
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Subject: Re: Nutek Roms and apple
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Date: 22 Apr 91 09:53:48 GMT
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In article <13303.280f36b0@ecs.umass.edu> hagan@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>roms, as they would *know* that they are compatable. I feel that if a
>situation like that ensued, we, the users of technology will benefit 
>greatly from the competition, for that is where the greatest leaps
>of technology come from.
>
like in ms-dos world? naaaaah.
The only ones who benefits are the computers resellers who can sell the
totally underqualified user thousands of utilities improving shell
and memory features and hundredth of thousands hours of service in order
to install and maintain the machines.
And think about what happened when the bios was available. Now there are
a couple of totally different operating systems which all claim to be
"compatible". Like DR-Dos, Concurrent PC-DOS, DeskView, and so on. The User
gets nothing but confused. And everyone pirates Mircrosofts MS-DOS. Time
will come that they copy-protect it. And anyone who thinks he is a kind of
programmer "improves" and "extends" the existing operating system. A lot
of applications just use the operating system to get loaded from disk to
memory. (Not more than 100 lines of code needed for that).
I think we can easily live without these "leaps of technology". The macintosh
though now 7 years old is still "state of the art", maybe even more advanced.
I don't want anybody who is not completely aware what he is doing to change or
"improve" things on the mac. And that means: Keep these things with apple.

>
>just my $799.95 + 5% thought tax for residents of taxachussetts.
>
you are a computer consultant, aren't you? ;-)

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Oliver.

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incompatibilities between my english and the commonly used version.