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From: mdg@macs.UUCP (Mark Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <21187634@macs.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 12:56:30 GMT
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In article <GRIFF.89Apr28084613@intelob.intel.com>, griff@intelob.intel.com (Richard Griffith) writes:
> 
> (Whew! Sorry about the long post, but like many Amiga lovers, any mention
>  of the Stupidity of upgrading any PC to OS/2 drives me into the "Will you
>  *LOOK* at what your doing, you idiot?!?!?", you know, the kind of reaction
>  you have when someone sticks a screwdriver into a big power panel that's
>  still turned on....:-)
> 
>                        OS/2 - Half an Operating System for TWICE the price!
> 

Gee.....we folks that have been running OS-9 on microcomputers for some
six or seven years now really get a kick out of the "new kids on the
block" boasting about the abilities of their systems.

In light of the previous posting here concerning OS/2 and megabytes of
memory, Bill Gates was quoted as saying something like you MUST have at
least 4 Meg to multitask.  I guess he never saw a 64K 6809 machine
running OS-9 Level I back in '83 when Microsoft was getting started (ir
was it earlier than that??)

I guess we'll just have to see what happens when OS-9 is released for
the 80386 (maybe) or the MacIntosh.

/\/\ark

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