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- From: Iain James Roger BENNETT CMP UG <v9506306>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 12:11:57 GMT
- Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, UK
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- mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) wrote:
- >PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- >: If Apple goes under, that is a BIG IF..We have PowerComputing, Umax, Radius and
- >: DayStar Digital! Nothing changes.
- >
- >Are you stupid or something? Apple OWNS MacOS. Without Apple, they are
- >not legally allowed to produce those machines. If Microsoft, Sun, or IBM
- >purchased the machine they are likely as not to simply integrate what
- >they want into their own operating systems and dump Mac OS and clones
- >altogether.
-
- Don't be so daft. One of the Mac clone companies - most likely Radius, or who
- knows... maybe Escom, would buy them out... :) I don't think Sun or IBM would
- dump MacOS. They know there are too many advantages of having it around.
- --
- Cheerio!
-
- -Iain
-
- Iain Bennett I.Bennett@uea.ac.uk
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