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From: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Free RTX (or maybe almost)
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Date: 5 Feb 88 14:08:27 GMT
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Reply-To: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Ingo Cyliax)
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I'm all for a free or inexpensive RTX, as long as we can get enough
docs and information to be able to port/run our application. Does
this operating system imply that it will be TOS compatable, i.e.
will compilers and things that we have accumluated still run under
it ? If it does it certainly seems a better solution that os9 or
waiting for Minix. I don't mind spending a little money for this,
say < $75 bucks, but if it's more than that, I probably wouldn't
bother with it. Considering you could get real UNIX for PC's
for less than $200 from Microport, I would probably just sell the
Atari and by a PC (yuck....) with UNIX.

So I guess my point is that if it's < $75 or so but you charge
enough to provide good docs. and support, I would probably buy it.
I would even pay more, if it comes with a decend "C" development
system and other tools.

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