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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
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Date: 30 May 91 21:10:10 GMT
References: <1991May14.180148.23635@athena.mit.edu> <21962@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May30.031517.17099@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991May30.143511.23228@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991May30.143511.23228@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>On the contrary, the Amiga is the first mass-marketed computer to support a
>window system with anything like a modern operating system. The internals
>of the Mac "operating system" are straight out of the '60s.

	In general, I agree with Peter, but Apple _did_ ship the Lisa with
a windowing system and a fairly real multitasking OS before the Amiga (and
before the Mac).  However, they exorcised the multitasking and some other
stuff when creating the Mac.  Also, you can't really say the Lisa was mass-
marketed, at $10,000 in the early 80's.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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