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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: OS/9 versus AmigaDOS (Re: Amiga Dealers/Commodore)
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Date: 1 Aug 88 12:12:06 GMT
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Let's put it this way: AmigaOS is the first multitasking operating system
shipped with a mass-market computer. This means that most of the software for
the Amiga is well behaved. Fewer and fewer major companies are shipping
programs that don't respect AmigaOS. OS/9 is available from Tandy for the
CoCo, but most of the CoCo software in your neighborhood Radio Shack doesn't
run under it... and there isn't any other mass-market computer running OS/9.
The Tandy 6000 and the Atari ST have OS/9 available, but not from the
manufacturer and it's not 6809 OS/9.

AmigaOS is also the first realtime operating system shipped with a mass-market
computer. It's the first concurrent windowing system shipped with a mass-
market computer. And so on...

OS/9 is probably a much better balanced system, but you can't play Bards Tale
while online to your local UNIX system and compiling the latest *.sources.amiga
program or ray tracing an F-16 buzzing a unicycle... because there's almost
no mass-market software for it.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?