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- From: elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 07:59:10 GMT
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- On 24 Jan 1996 12:11:57 GMT, Iain James Roger BENNETT CMP UG >>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.
-
- HuH? Isn't Radius selling off their mac clone division? And what would
- IBM care, their main profit is in mainframes, and I don't recall a
- whole lot of competition from the MacOS mainframes (oh yeah, there
- AREN'T any). IBM has a tough enough time keeping it's head above water
- in the desktop market these days. The one probable purchaser, and it's
- a company with more money than God, would be MicroSoft (can you REALLY
- imagine ANY mac clone company with the resouces to stand up to them?
- Any PC company, for that matter?). Bill won't be happy until
- EVERYTHING runs on NT. Yeah, they might keep the platform alive just
- to keep the happy lil' mac users around (after all, "Bob" is sorta
- like the MacOS), but I guarantee every one of those PPC puppies will
- be running NT if they do. Or some derivitave thereof (MacOS '96 fer
- chrissakes!).
-
- Flat on my back in the middle of the Information Superhighway
-