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Re: box-drawing characters

From "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.development
Subject Re: box-drawing characters
Date 2024-08-21 11:47 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <va4gju$3r4af$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 20/08/2024 22:04, Paul Edwards wrote:
> In another forum (an Amiga forum), someone suggested that
> one of the reasons why the Amiga couldn't easily replace the
> IBM PC was because it didn't have the box-drawing characters
> in the default character set.

No, it was closer to no-MMU in most machines. If they'd not been 
cheapskates and put in an MMU, they could've had memory protection from 
the start. Also not being in a hurry for CES (or whatever it was) and 
waiting for CAOS to be written, would've helped.

But then, so would not hiring a shit ton of PC management to sell PC's 
instead of hiring more Amiga staff. So would not having dickheads in 
management who live on a fucking plane who hired another dickhead who 
destroyed the company.

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box-drawing characters "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 05:04 +0800
  Re: box-drawing characters "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> - 2024-08-21 11:47 +0100
  Re: box-drawing characters wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-08-21 16:11 +0200

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