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    16-May-91  18:29:07
Sb: #Amiga and OS-9
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: all

Well, it's enough to make a person crazy... it's sad enough that the Atari ST
almost came with OS-9 as its standard operating system, but didn't... but now
we also find out (from this exchange on internet):

   Amiga Owner #1: "Given the grief that many of us suffered under [Amiga OS]
1.0 and 1.1, I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off with C= buying
OS-9/68K, which was reasonably stable, at the time, then adding [graphics]."
   Amiga Owner #2: "I asked about that, at the time. The response I got
indicated that nobody at Amiga had ever heard of Microware.  Weird."
   Commodore Honcho: "Not quite accurate.  In the days when we were looking for
a replacement for the original CAOS  (we had the tripos port in hand, but...) I
talked to the folks at Microware (since I was already talking to them about
another project using an OS9 varient.). At that time their unit pricing even
for large volumes made their operating system uneconomical for us to use. Which
was a shame."

"A shame" indeed!  If both the ST and Amiga had come with OS-9, perhaps we'd
now be reading interviews in TIME magazine with MW President Ken Kaplan,
instead of always just with Bill Gates :-(.   Drat.

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