Olde cheap(ish) *nix [was Linux vs. BSD?]

[Fred]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

>Speaking of the Amiga, I bought an Atari ST. It was interesting that
>Atari actually funded the Amiga which was supposed to become an Atari.
>Jack Tramiel (Commodore's founder) bought Atari from WB, and Commodore
>bought the company that was developing the Amiga. Atari then developed
>the Atari ST in 6 months. Tramiel later sued WB for $50,000,000 because
>he was supposed to get the Amiga. One of the things I liked to do was
>to go to a BCS show, and demonstrate to the Mac people that I could run
>Mac programs 10% faster that the Mac. All the Atari needed to emulate
>the Mac was the Apple ROMs. 
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We were doing the MAC emulation bit on the Amiga too. And with the same 
results. I think it was quite a bit better than 10% because of the 
Amiga's graphics co-processor and blitter, then nearly unheard of for 
low-end machines.

Apple eventually tried to make it more difficult to obtain the ROMs, but 
people managed to get them anyway. Heck, you could burn them easily enough.

-Fred