From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead? Date: 1 Oct 1992 06:41:24 GMT
talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) writes:
> In article <12945@ecs.soton.ac.uk> nwp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Nick Phillips) writ
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> I saw the same thing happen to the Commodore Amiga. When it was released, it
> was ahead of it's time. It had superior graphics, sound and I/O slave proces
> sors that allowed it to run considerably faster in typical applications than
> just about anything else available (in the personal computer market). It als
> had (has) an operating system vastly superior to MS-DOS. Due to Commodore's
> unbelievably inept and incompetant marketing department, the Amiga has slippe
> and many now consider it dead. It certainly isn't - there's still a huge fol
> lowing - but it's not as "alive" as it could/should be.
>
Being an amiga owner I have to agree here. Not dead merely sleeping.
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