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From: singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ha ha ha ha, ho ho ho ho, he he he... Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <953@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 8 Apr 88 12:59:20 GMT
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Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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In-reply-to: rnss@ihuxy.ATT.COM's message of 7 Apr 88 23:53:08 GMT




Roy Schreiner writes...

In article <206@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
...
>Use a real third party UNIX house for software support.  Atari only supports

Mr Beckemeyer,

  Why don't you put your multitasking OS in ROM and become the
third party OS house for the ST  NOW!!

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If it isn's supported / sold / given away, by Atari, the chances of
making large market inroads is quite small.  Look at who well
Idris, OS/9 (st version), rtx are doing on the ST. And how well
things like CPM/86 did on the PC (IBM even sold that, but did
not push it).

Compare this to say OS/9 on the Coco...

Third party operating systems don't seem to sell too well on micro's
unless supported strongly by the hardware vendor.