28 May
2024
28 May
'24
1:23 p.m.
On 5/26/2024 2:50 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
I think the most important thing for a Personal Computer,
is the average Joe, can afford and use it. The second thing is
to have ample memory and IO to run useful programs. The basic Apple
I,II does not count as many others as it had BASIC in ROM and tape IO.
Why not? I have seen some very serious research done on Apple][
systems at the University where I worked. I even have two of
them that I saved from the dumpster.
The third thing is a real OS. Nobody has one, as a
personal computer.
CP/M and MSDOS does not handle IRQ's. Unix for the PDP-11 is real
operating system but not personal as it requires a admin,and a swapping
media.
Tandy Color Computer running OS/9. I have had as many as 5
simultaneous users on one. Plus background tasks like a web
server. Easily affordable since its inception. Can run very
serious programs written in languages other than BASIC, plus
it had Basic09 which was a much more serious language than the
run-of-the-mill BASIC.
bill