Layne:
I'm biased on this -- got a 64 tucked away in the attic (Darling Only Son
...) but Commodore were winning the wAR HANDS-DOWN. Then Atari brought out
the ST, and it was SUPPOSED to be running on OS9 [2] -- shit, OS9 [2] did
multitasking before IBM even thought about it ...
Only everyone [bar IBM] was playing musical chairs over who'd be COE.
Jobs [Richard, am I right on this?] jumped fron Apple to Atari, and paid his
nephew to run a[n] (MS)DOS OS clone as the OS on the Atari ST ...
Then it went mostly hell to breakfast, and we all bought IBMs.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Layne Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Self-publication -- a costing.
> Robin,
>
> I appreciated the mention of the 60's history -- Apple and Commodore --
not
> IBM. I started with a Commodore 64 (very impressive during its time) and
I
> only switched from Amiga in 1997. Anyone remember who was the first with
> color and true multi-tasking? One great machine (too bad about the
> miserable company management). I grew to hate being out of the
mainstream
> and gave it up for a PC and never looked back.
>
> I haven't minded your discussion at all. :)
>
> Layne
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [POETRYETC] Self-publication -- a costing.
>
>
> Re: Self-publication -- a costing.
>
> <snip>
>
> Richard, get your history straight -- sixties was Apple and Commodore
> fighting it out for The Personal Computer Market. Apple (and Steve Jobs)
> won (before IBM joined the fight) -- but that was +well+ before Windows.
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