Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!knudsen
From: knudsen@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS9000/386
Summary: Is Microware denying the "Coco4"?
Message-ID: <12342@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 18:11:08 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.085728.9745@metro.ucc.su.oz.au> <1805@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1432@mcrware.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1432@mcrware.UUCP>, kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf) writes:
> In article <1989Dec20.130322.896@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> cocoiii@shumv1.ncsu.edu (John Vestal) writes:

> >     There is going to be a new computer coming out within six months at will
> >run OS9000 thaat is built in to ROM.  This computer will run 6809 OS-9 stuff,

> This of course, should have been cross posted to talk.rumors...
> Kim Kempf, Microware Systems Corporation	{sun,uunet}!mcrware!kim

I'm a little (?) disturbed by this remark coming from a Microware
employee.
Does this mean the Microware in general, or some of its people,
are opposed to the CocoPro/Coco4/KMA machine, or hoping it will fail,
or just very doubtful that it will go anywhere?
They should be more supportive -- this is where the next generation
of OS9 purchasers is going to come from.
I've heard that many industrial programmers who call up Microware
and ask about using OS9 are people who first discovered it on their
Radio Shack Cocos.  Microware got a lot of good publicity out of
that and should take a more positive attitude, at least in public,
towards the first affordable OSK graphics machine.

How about it, Kim?  Have you been reading the "rumors" on CIS and
Delphi and coco@princeton.edu, or do you know something we don't?
--mike k.

P.S.: If I misinterpreted the meaning of Kim's posting, than please
forgive and Merry Xmas and a happy new DECADE for OS9/K!
-- 
Mike Knudsen  knudsen@ihlpl.att.com   (312)-713-5134
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