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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: Amiga DTP isn't catching up quite fast enough...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.053533.21649@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:35:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.194747.18348@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- writes:
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- [Microsoft vs. IBM in corporate size]
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- >Is this really true. Wow, the giant is toppled!
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- No, he's misinformed (by an order of magnitude).
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- >And to think that MicroSoft was put on the map
- >by Commodore commisioning them to do BASIC for
- >the PET. Talk about missed opportunities.
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- Not quite so. Microsoft BASIC was first developed for the Altair. It was
- IBM's commissioning of MS-DOS which put them into orbit.
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