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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
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Date: 31 May 91 09:44:09 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>
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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.

The first mass-marketed computer in the United States, perhaps; otherwise, I
would point at the Fujitsu FM-11 and FM-77, dual-processor 6809s running
OS-9/6809, as counterexamples.

	James Jones