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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: OS/MFT and Macintosh (was: ..History)
- Message-ID: <id.832T.JZ6@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:27:21 GMT
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- In article <Bu4J78.785@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
- > 2) Long market stability means commodities get cheaper. We can't all
- > have the latest technology on our desks anyway, so better 20 years
- > out of date and dirt cheap than not at all. Ie better DOS on 50m
- > desks than super-duper WhatzitOS (TM) on 50,000 and crank desk
- > calculators on the rest.
-
- Except that super-duper-whatzitos runs more efficiently and responsively
- on smaller systems than today's DOS users expect, and has been available
- on personal computers for 6-15 years (depending on your value of whatzitos).
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