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To: yofal who wrote (11779)	4/18/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Yep, the MSFT train is long. However I hear the the uear 2000 stops all 16 bit support completely. Will they still make a dos/win routine available as a discrete program in staed of part of the OS. I do not think Apple can afford to leave any people behind in the next upgrade. The old macs are already left behind. Every time you do that you have a huge batch jump ship. There has always been an informal alliance between the CPU maker and the OS writers so that new codes are added where needed for each party.Each tells the other what is best for optimal and they co-evolve their products. I am quite curious about what cats Jobs will debag at the meeting? I have often wanted to attend, say a MSFT AGM, and get a crate of live chickens and release them just after they start the meeting. What pandemonium<GG> The only thing that stops me is my concern for the fate of the chickens, that and the 3000 miles distance. Any clone strategy would not allow any OS mods at all by the cloners. No unix problems allowed. Do you realize that Unix would now be the winner and MSFT a footnote if only the original unix licences had forbidden proprietary rewrites to make small captive markets, instead we ended up with a dozen or so different unixes, many successful, but a scattered development market. Bill