Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!apollo!rehrauer From: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A new Amiga needed...and soon! Message-ID: <1991Jun29.194017.10138@apollo.hp.com> Date: 29 Jun 91 19:40:17 GMT References: <1991Jun27.025556.6986@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: netnews@apollo.hp.com (USENET posting account) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: copper.ch.apollo.hp.com In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: >I say, can you dig what Saturn is doing. Revamping the whole idea of how to >produce a car. Has anyone thought of doing this with operating systems? They certainly has. OSF/1, Unix International (SysVR4), and less recently, Microsoft/IBM (OS/2 -- don't you believe this is merely intended for PeeCee boxes, nosireebub). I dunno, does ACE propose a particular OS not in that camp? >Someones got to make some kind of architecture to bridge between Unix, MSDOS, >Mac, Amiga, and perhaps even NeXT. Computers need to be standardized. We cant >rely off BridgeBoard, Medusa's, and A-Max all our lives, yah know.. Standards bring their share of downside, too. Like, innovating in the face of twenty zillion existing apps-that-mustn't-be-broken isn't easy, I'd guess. Besides, then what would y'all in this group have to pick on poor Apple and IBM about, eh? :-P -- "Did you check the car to see if it's okay for | Steve Rehrauer a long trip, Sam?" "Well, the wheels are still | rehrauer@apollo.hp.com on... and here's the key... Yep, everything | Hewlett-Packard checks out!" -- Freelance Police | MA Languages Lab