Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!cs!schweige From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: bah ha ha ha! Message-ID: <883@cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 12 Feb 90 21:38:36 GMT References: <90042.132253GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET> Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA Lines: 49 In article <90042.132253GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET> GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET writes: > >In article , >portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) says: >> >>From the 2/6 San Francisco Chronicle, Business section, without >>permission: >>Apple Computer Inc.'s largest sale to the federal government could be >>reversed in the wake of a General Accounting Office ruling that >> ... (stuff deleted) >>system did not adequately meet the Air Force's requirements for >>capability called "multitasking" -- the ability for a PC to perform > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - does this mean the Amiga is about to >get a massive boost in the federal government arena? Boy oh boy, if Mr. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - I doubt it. >Copperman pushes the Amiga on this sale, phewie! That would be one heckuva >push for the 'ole amy. > I wonder what will happen.... >--dominic The GAO ruling is a non-binding recommendation that the Air Force does not necessarily have to comply with, although such rulings are not usually ignored. In any event, it doesn't look like the competition would go back to square one. From the 5 February 1990 issue of Federal Computer Week: "GAO called on the Air Force to clarify its requirements and run a new round of best-and-final offers from among the bidders within competitive range. Before the aware, Honeywell, Martin Marietta and C3 Inc. were qualified as competitive." Honeywell Federal Systems is the prime contractor who bid the MacIntosh. Martin Marietta apparently bid Sun workstations, and C3 bid a Zenith Data Systems Z-1000 multiprocessor workstation. What the above means is that if the Amiga wasn't already bid, it can't be in the running now. Another issue might also be the lack of an Ada compiler for the Amiga. While it wasn't mentionned in any of the press reports I saw on the issue, I wouldn't be surprised if an available Ada compiler were a requirement for the contract. Jeff Schweiger -- ******************************************************************************* Jeff Schweiger CompuServe: 74236,1645 Standard Disclaimer ARPAnet (Defense Data Network): schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************