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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 28-May-86 12:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 28 12:19:00 1986
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> The question is: What advantage is held by a computer running OS-9 if
> the CDI standard becomes a success?
 ...
>     6- that OS-9 is really great, independent of CDI, and that you
> 	come out ahead even without any of the above panning out.
> 		    jimm

	"I can think o' one right off."
				--Scotty, "By Any Other Name"

The two things that come to mind for me is

1. This should be a good source of $$$ for Microware, and thus assure
   its continued existence even if the general public continues to
   drool over the International BM.

2. It means that one of my fears about CD-ROM, namely that some scumbag
   International BM format would be adopted as a "standard" so that,
   thanks to the heavy startup cost of getting stuff on CD, we OS-9
   users would be deprived of CD-ROM, is fairly unlikely.

						James Jones