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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Real Time UNIX (Re: NeXT software size)
Message-ID: <21599@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 May 91 16:17:27 GMT
References: <1991May6.112709.8280@sugar.hackercorp.com> <361@ncmicro.lonestar.org> <947@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1991May13.004526.717@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991May13.004526.717@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <947@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
>> Given the grief that many of us suffered under 1.0 and 1.1, I wonder if
>> we wouldn't have been better off with C= buying OS-9/68K, which was
>> reasonably stable, at the time, then adding the part of AmigaDOS that
>> really shines, Intuition, and the support for the graphics chips, as
>> Microware has added graphics support to OS-9, finally.  Please, no
>> flames, it's just an idle thought.
>
>I asked about that, at the time. The response I got indicated that nobody at
>Amiga had ever heard of Microware.
>
>Weird.

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'


Not quite accurate.  In the days when we were looking for a replacement for the
original CAOS  (we had the tripos port in hand, but...) I talked to the folks
at Microware (since I was already talking to them about another
project using an OS9 varient.). At that time their unit pricing even for 
large volumes made their operating system uneconomical for us to use.
Which was a shame.


		andy
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