walkerke@sanfan.DEC (10/17/85)
This discussion of Apple (Mac) vs. DRI (Amiga) reminds me (as so often the case) of a company, oh about ten years ago or so, somewhere in California that developed this new operating system for microcomputers. This OS was interactive (that in itself was inovative) and very compact. It allowed the operator/user to add peripheral devices that he/she may or may not yet have installed on the system. It had an editor that was quit effective. The list went on... Of course the OS was CP/M and the California company was none other than DRI. But wait! CP/M looked an *AWFULL* lot like a earlier OS from a company back east; DIGITAL. It looked quit akin to the DEC RT-11 operating system. CP/M even used the same achronym for the peripheral I/O utility (PIP). I don't recall DEC sueing DRI (although this may have occured) but the point is that in such as situation DEC should *not* take legal recourse. Simply because the two products are destined for two different markets (unless DEC decided to manufacture 8085/Z80 based systems in 1975, which would of course be an entirely different story) and are complementary rather than mutually inclusive. Kevin (DEC SWS) -------------------- Please note that this mail message is likely to be incomplete. The sender aborted the transmission. rhea::MAILER-DAEMON --------------------