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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard roumors...
Message-ID: <1568@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 89 22:40:20 GMT
References: <2837UD158339@NDSUVM1> <125372@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <125372@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
| In article <2837UD158339@NDSUVM1> UD158339@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Glen) writes:
| >     What is the deal with H-P and the Amiga? From what i understand H-P
| >is interested in buying out the machine. 
| 
| Not *Amiga*, HP bought *Apollo*. Sure they both start with "A", I could
| how you might get confused. :-)

No, really, HP saw Apollo's Aegis OS and decided they now want an A-machine
with a *real* OS.

[Note: no :-) regarding Aegis]

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu