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- From: kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 21:12:45 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
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- >The entire AGA/CISC line is a "dead line to meet" for Amiga
- >Technologies. Don't expect any significant improvments or changes in the
- >OS before things move to RISC. Using MUI is a good way to get short-term
- >gains without a heck of a lot of programming to do on what will soon be a
- >dead OS (CISC OS 3.1). I'd be surprised if they continue to update the
- >CISC OS when the RISC boxes start shipping. The only reason that Apple
- >kept on developing for their CISC machines was because they were (and are
- >I guess) still selling a few. By the time AT starts shipping RISCs, it
- >won't really be viable to have a CISC machine in the lineup.
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- Who says the entire OS has to be rewritten? Higher level parts of the OS
- (written in C using lower level primitives) can of course be reused.
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