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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga OS (vs Unix) Liscencing? A 'generic OS' needed
Message-ID: <170@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 13:44:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 13:44:12 1986
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In article <408@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax.UUCP (What's in a name ?) writes:
>Imagine having to gamble on a new car if GM used diesel, Ford used
>unleaded, Chrysler used gasahol, Honda used alcohol, Toyota used coal
>gas, ..... and so on for about 20 different cars, and no car could use
>another's gas.
>
>What kind of gas should the gas stations sell?  What should the refiners
>produce?  What investments should be made (oil wells or farm land?).
>This is the delemma faced by the computer industry today.  Each "proprietary
>system" succeds or fails based on this very logic.

Wrong analogy, I think.  This would be more appropriate  if  each  computer
had  different input power requirements (60 vs 50 hz. vs DC. 110, 120, 220,
240, etc. volts) although that's more easily compensated for than differing
chemical fuels.

Closer to the mark  would  be  radically  differing  steering  and  control
mechanisms.  Throttle  on  the  steering  column, rear-wheel steering, that
sort of thing.

Does it really matter which is better?  Commodore is obviously committed to
their  operating  system  and isn't about to switch to OS-9 or UNIX at this
point.  If there's enough demand third party vendors will step in  to  fill
the  gap  and  all  the  people who don't like Intuition will get their own
preference.  Meanwhile, this whole debate has little to do with  the  Amiga
per se and probably belongs in another group.  Enough, already.

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