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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The experiment ends... (or, Atari's 520ST replacement plan
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Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 17:20:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 17:20:27 1987
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In article <8704171832.AA07396@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UD140469@NDSUVM1.BITNET
(Scott Udell) writes, anent BOS:

> ...According to the flyer, the "diskette-based system includes
>automatic demos, games that illustrate the power of MicroCobol (i.e.,
>BOS/Space Invaders, BOS/Othello), and BOS product descriptions."

Gee, too bad that these are proprietary programs. I'd love to see the source
code for Space Invaders done in Cobol.

Rather less tongue-in-cheek: did BOS go anywhere? I saw a blurb on it in
InfoWorld a year or so ago, and then neither saw nor thought about it any
more.

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