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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Refreshing Interview with Petro T.
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 96 13:45:36
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4l6go7$ncl@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath) writes:
- >
- > : JTV> In fact, IBM's dropping the PPC port of OS/2 leaves a gap that could
- > : JTV> be filled very comfortably by the new Amiga OS. Daydreams? Probably.
- > : JTV> But let there be no doubt that IBM knows what is going on with the
- > : JTV> Amiga, and is considering involvement.
- > Hmm, they already licensed MacOS so I'd be surprised to see them support yet
- > another OS (And I'm not sure if I'd want IBM to get involved).
-
- Don't you mean Motorola? They are said to have closed some new kind of license
- deal with Apple, but not IBM (as far as I remember).
-
- Anyway, what is wrong with IBM? They're a competent outfit nowadays and they're
- rising like tax rates (or whatever it is that you compare things to that rise
- very fast). They are also, I think, not to blame for the domination of "IBM"
- PC's although they are slightly to blame for its crappiness.
-
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- > _| Bernhard Fastenrath /// http://titan.cs.bonn.edu/~fasten/ : _|
- > _| fasten@cs.bonn.edu \\\/// - XWorkbench 0.2 (Amiga Workbench for X11) _|
- > _| fasten@shw.com \XX/ - Ext2 filesystem 0.5b for AmigaDOS, 0.3 _|
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
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