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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: Atari's new 16 bit'r
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Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 17:32:07 EST
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> I think that both Motorola and Digital Research probably have a fair
> size stake in this matter.  In order to capture a bigger piece of the
> 3rd party software market, they both benifit from a standardized operating
> system that is transportable to various 68000 based machines.  Certainly
> Apple is not offering this with their Mac, (try running MacPaint or 
> MacWhatever off the shelf on anything but an Apple product!).

Is Atari?  GEM may run on multiple machines, but I'd gotten the impression
that Atari was using a proprietary OS.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy