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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grrrr....BCPL.....
Message-ID: <11530@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 07:43:58 GMT
References: <14562@louie.udel.EDU> <6762@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Lt. Col. Oliver North, Overseas Shipping and Receiving.
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Quote: "Are a pair of 'Fruit of the Loom' briefs as sexy as we think?"  -- Milo

In article <6762@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	Without Tripos there might not have been an Amiga (or a Commodore).
>
	You might care to talk to Carl Sassenrath about that.

>	Also, who ever said we have to keep the DOS in BCPL forever?  [ ... ]

	Ah, but those miserable BPTR's and BSTR's are forever.

	Take heart; worse things could have happened than AmigaDOS.  An
MS-DOS style filesystem comes to mind.

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