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From: bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe)
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Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 11 May 89 10:17:33 GMT
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In article <24279@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
>
>Does an Amiga have inter-process communications,

 YES.  And it's being supported by more applications.

> built-in e-mail
>features,

 Sounds like something you'd find in an fat OS with a large overhead...
 like  Mac 7.0 or OS/2.  Something not everyone wants, but everyone pays for.

> virtual memory up to 4 gigabytes,

  Next year, probably sooner than 7.0's release for users.

> an optional UNIX-like operating system

  Yes, AMIX is much like A/UX.

> and a large educational pricing campaign?

AMIGA's are inexpensive to BEGIN WITH.  You don't need to be tricked into
thinking you're getting some huge discount.  Apple's prices are so
grossly inflated, it's a rip-off even buying a peripheral from them.
This is a straight business FACT, not opinion.

>Just wondering,
>--- Alex

Now you know !

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