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From: csc@watmath.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Phew!  You guys sure talk a lot!
Message-ID: <4662@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 01:14:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 01:14:13 1987
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2325@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	It is a sad twist of fate that left us with the DOS we have today.
>I spoke to -=RJ Mical=- privately nearly a year ago on this subject.  He
>related to me that they had come up internally with a spec for the DOS they
>wanted the system to run.  But everyone within the company was already
>working on other projects.  So they contracted out to another firm (which
>-=RJ=- would not name for legal/moral reasons) to write the DOS, asking,
>"Please have it ready by the time CES rolls around."
 (etc...)

  Would some version of this spec be available?  I'm not up to writing OS's
(yet), but I'd still like to contemplate it.  It would also be interesting
to compare the spec'd OS with current AmigaDOS.  (Did it ask for multitasking?)

  Is there someone I can get a photocopy from, or is it a secret internal
document?  Paying $x (for small x) for the copier's time is acceptable.
Of course, if it's around in electronic form, that's even better.

	-Colin Plumb (c/o csc@watmath)

Zippy says:
I would like to urinate in an OVULAR, porcelain pool --