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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Where's CAOS (was: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?)
Message-ID: <19975@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: 23 Dec 87 02:14:49 GMT
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In article <15998@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
> 
> In article <139@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> lunge!jesup@beowulf.UUCP writes:
> >In fact, the custom OS (called CAOS) was spec'ed by the person who wrote
> >Exec, Karl Sassenrath.  I have been told by Andy Finkel that CAOS actually
> >somewhat existed on a Sage for a while, before it was scrapped.
> 
> Weel, the question everyone's asking is:
> Where do I get it?

At a recent FAUG meeting, it was mentioned by "someone who should know",
that there was still a lawsuit pending between CBM and the individual
who left C-A holding the bag WRT the original Amiga OS (CAOS).  [I don't
believe this was Karl, and don't mean to imply that at all.]

Since the issues are in the hands of lawyers, you *might* be able to get
ahold of it near the year 9595 ... but I doubt it!

Too bad!  If it was as well done as Exec, Intuition, etc, it would've been
a real killer ...

/kim


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