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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 11:28:43 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stephen B Hodge) writes:
-
- >I think the only way to go is to toss the OS completely.
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- Remember that the OS the only asset.
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- >Now is the perfect
- >opportunity to come out with a killer OS the doesn't contain the artifacts
- >that the current OS has (eg OldOpenLibrary() et al).
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- I believe that you are more concerned about asthetics than functionality
- and usability.
-
- >it now. What I think AT should do is to port OS3.1 to PPC and then write
- >a new (largely incompatible) OS that resembles AmigaDOS but contains the
- >features that an OS is expected to have now.
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- What for ? They can simply sell WinNT then which is clearly an OS that
- "contains the features that an OS is expected to have now".
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- Of course they wouldn't survive long...
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- Michael van Elst
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