PalmOS no more? :(

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:32 PM +0100 9/30/05, Liam Proven wrote:
>Until the rise of the PC, European microcomputers and American ones
>evolved in quite different directions - mainly because American ones
>were too damned expensive for us in the Old World so we used cheaper,
>more efficient machines. I bought train tickets in Amsterdam in 1990
>from a woman using an Atari ST workstation; they were the kit of the
>whole Centraal station, as far as I could see. I knew labs and
>businesses as well as schools in Britain entirely based on Acorn
>32-bit RISC micros running RISC OS - even the Acorn licensed Unix,
>RISC-IX, was too expensive. I believe Amigas as well as STs were very
>widespread in Germany. Serious (& rich, back then) British DTP types
>used Macs and still do.

The interesting thing here is, both the Amiga and the Atari were US 
computers.  Yet, if anything, they were more popular in Europe, 
especially in the UK and Germany (today most anything for either 
platform tends to come out of one of these two countries).

As for the Acorn, did it ever get exported anywhere?  I know they 
never really made it here to the US.  Another good example would be 
the Sinclair, except for the little Timex-Sinclair system that was 
out at about the same time as the VIC-20, or a little before, I don't 
think any Sinclair models made it to the US (I have one, but it came 
from a list member a few years ago).

Sadly for way to long, the US has been either PC or Mac, and this 
tended to be true, even when the Atari and Amiga were available.

		Zane


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