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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: BobOS (was Re: Mac memory mgmt)
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.070700.4933@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 07:07:00 GMT
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amiga@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (ftp Amiga Manager) writes:

>In article <1991Jun22.075918.27367@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
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>[...]
>>  Something I'm sure Apple realises, given their rumoured development of
>>a non-Mac compatible OS (the legendary "Pink" which has been making the
>>news rounds lately).

>What I want to know is how hard Dave H. is lobbying the software crew for
>a CBM countermeasure to "Pink".  Something we can call "Slack" maybe?  :-)

  I don't know how many software engineers Commodore has, but rumour has it
that there are over 100 at Apple working on Pink.  In fact, there's an
entire building on the Apple campus devoted to "Pink Engineering", according
to a friend of mine.

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