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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Last time on this one
- Message-ID: <11654@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:32:42 GMT
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- dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
-
- >There's no Atari CLI;
- >they're all third party products. In other words, there is no
- >equivalent to DOS in the Atari world -- as far as ATARI is concerned
- >there IS no CLI.
-
- Oh, and as far as IBM are concerned, there is no **OS** for PC's, because
- DOS is written by Microsoft, which, when I last looked was NOT a subsidiary
- of IBM.
-
- Dave, you're clutching at very thin, straw-like weapons now.
-
- Atari is in the business of making COMPUTER. Not software. That's YOUR
- job.
-
- --
- Warwick
- ps. Who wrote "COMMAND.COM", the "CLI" for MS-DOS?
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