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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Message-ID: <DLs7xA.8HM@bton.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:34:21 GMT
-
- Iain James Roger BENNETT CMP UG (v9506306) wrote:
- : 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
- : >: DayStar Digital! Nothing changes.
- : >
- PowerComputing are looking like the big winners at the moment!
-
- : >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.
-
- This is very true. However, Microsoft have already copied (allegedly) the
- MacOS '89 for Windows '95, and lets face it, MAC OS is a lot better. So I
- don't think the OS will die. It is already an integeral part of the CHRP.
- It, like tha Amiga, is too good to die and the Macs arn't coming close to the
- Amiga in terms of elegance.
-
- : 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!
-
- I've actually heard that Sun have already put in a bid for Apple.
- STRICTLY RUMOUR though!
- --
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
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