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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.005219.5515@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 91 00:52:19 GMT
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jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

>Quoted from <1991Jun10.175239.642@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):

>    Isn't Microsoft on record as wanting Windows to be a platform
>    independent thing? 

  That's OS/2 V3.0.

>Aren't IBM and DEC in some sort of group that is
>    on record as wanting Unix as a platform independent standard...? :)

  Well, IBM just seems to want to have rights to anything and everything
under the sun.  They've already have rights to use four GUI's: Presentation
Manager, Motif, NeXTStep and Metaphor Systems Patriot product + I recall
Penpoint's user interface.
  Maybe they just want Apple to round out the list.


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