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| 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) |
| References | <va30dc$3h5np$1@dont-email.me> |
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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