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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (544762)	1/18/2010 8:45:30 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574333

OK. What companies OS was "stolen" by Steve Jobs to inspire the Apple OS? What computer was known as the trash 80? I assume these aren't serious questions. But I did own a bunch of Trash 80s. Their Xenix systems weren't half bad. I made a good living writing software in C for those systems for a few years. I had a project to do a system for the marketing department of a large American brand (one whose soft drinks you drink). They LOVED the trash80 because it was dirt cheap. I called and talked to Rad Shck management at the time and told them I really, really needed 100MB of disk, and all they had 8MB (which could be rigged up to 4 drives for a total of 32, I think). I was told by the big shot over their computer systems, "We don't envision ever having a need for 100MB on these computers". I knew right then they were history; they totally didn't get it.