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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 22:49:26 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Microsoft, Blue Ribbon, and the Am
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 24 Mar 96 Hybrid wrote to All:
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- H> From: hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Hybrid)
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- H> Myxx (myxx@cris.com) wrote:
- > : I just got this month's PC Computing and read an interesting column by :
- > Dvorak. For those interested it is the April Issue on page 47.
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- > : Gates is apparently interested in doing some acquisition of older :
- > technology. He has purchased some CP/M operating systems as well as : GEM
- > (for you Atari lovers out there). He is quoted as having tried to : get
- > the Amiga OS as well. He is looking for an OS that will run on : some new
- > machines, probably set-top boxes.
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- H> If Gates wants the AmigaOS, it's for one reason, to get it under his
- H> control so it can't haunt him in the future when it's finally liberated
- H> from the Amiga hardware and is ported to different machines. Putting the
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- There may be another reason, the reason IBM seemed to be interested
- in CBM at the time of the buy-out: patents.
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- For more information: see Atari.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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