Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: The Lawsuit, Standardization, and Whiny DOS Users...
Message-ID: <1928@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 11:18:32 GMT
References: <8685@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <5823@well.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 31
Summary: Now a serious message...

In article <5823@well.UUCP>, rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass) writes:
> > P.S. Ever notice any similarities? :

Slightly edited:

> > Apple II - 8-bit machine, open architecture, slots, keyboard, video,
> > drive, 1979

> > IBM PC   - 8/16-bit machine, open architecture, slots, keyboard, video,
> > drive, 1982

> > Macintosh - 16/32-bit, Mouse, Graphical User Interface, 3 1/2 inch disks,
> > circa 1984
(add here: unclonable via legal protection)

Commodore Amiga - 16/32-bit, Mouse, GUI, 3.5" disks, real-time multitasking
operating system with exceptional performance, circa 1986. Tough to clone,
unfortunatly, because of all the high-performance graphics chips.

> > IBM PS/2's with OS/2 - 32-bit, Mouse, Graphical User Interface,
> > 3 1/2 inch disks,circa 1988
(add here: unclonable via legal protection)

> You forgot: Full 32-bit bus, open architecture, multitasking OS, runs existing
> software base.

You really think Presentation Manager is gonna make it by the end of the year?
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