Hadn't heard of CherryOS--looking at it now. I still have my ST. Tramiel did some good stuff, he and Shiraz, but they never had the marketing to sell it. They were up to a 68030 and even supposedly had Unix running on it. Then, they went schizo and tried to bring out a PC clone along about the time they disappeared. I think the games division may still be around. DEC made great hardware, a great OS in VMS... Again, somehow marketing and a stumble in the emerging PC business seemed to do them in. Don't know about the cocaine. In those days, pretty much all the high flyers in any industry seemed to be on coke. OS 9 on Intel, Jobs would rather have a heart attack.

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