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Hello Jasen - 

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

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

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

Whatever. I never did like GUIs but I knew there were some
being used at the time (other than W9x). 

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

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

OS9 would've been better than Linux if Microware wasn't so
determined to make a killing on _every_ sale they would _own_
the multitasking crowd by now. 

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