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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

5338.0. "Amiga mentioned in `DIGITAL TODAY'" by FORTY2::CADWALLADER (Reaping time has come...) Fri Jan 10 1992 12:24

Hi,
	I was amazed to see a small (but perfectly formed) mention of our
	beloved machine in the UK edition of DIGITAL today! On the back page
	is an article "IBM sadly discovers that breaking up is hard to do".
	There is a section discussing the reasons for OS/2 flopping, containing
	the lines

	"If only OS/2 had been launched with the PC AT in August 1984, it would
	 now dominate the industry.

				Smart.

	 IBM didn't think of it way back then. But the Xerox Star was well known
	 at the end of the 1970s, Apple had been shipping the Macintosh since
	 January 1984, Microsoft had already announced Windows, Digital Research
	 was working on GEM, and the graphical, multi-tasking Amiga home micro
			     ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^
	 had been shown at CES."
	 ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^

	Notoriety at last!? ;-/

								- JIM CAD*
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