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to: Charles Angelich
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-09-25 05:59:20
subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: RE:

Hi Charles.

24-Sep-03 00:30:02, Charles Angelich wrote to Roger Scudder


 CA> Microsoft did put out W95 without enough testing. They must've
 CA> perceived a threat from 'others'.

 CA> AMIGA had GEM or GEOS and APPLE had MacIntosh?

Amiga had WorkBench I think, ATARI had GEM which was first available on PC
but didn't prove popular.  Geoworks was the Commodore-64 GEOS re-worked for
the PC.

 CA> There were rumors of OS9 going onto AMIGA which
 CA> would've been a 'killer' combination had it ever happened
 CA> (existing X-window clone GUI).

Yeah, I remeber the AMIGA users drooling over linux ... but it
was many years until the 68K-noMMU versions came out.

 -=> Bye <=-

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