22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
11:49 a.m.
Rumor has it that Chris M may have mentioned these words:
Then whomever wrote the quiz got it wrong... ;-)
Out of
interest, why was the answer to the "Only
Amiga makes it possible"
advertising slogan question "because it can
multi-task and run a second OS"
Presumably because it was the only home computer that
made it possible (got that one right!). I haven't used
Amigas at all really, but I have to admit the ability
to multitask at home must have been pretty astounding
back in the day.
Not to me - Tandy CoCos could do it since '81 or '82, when OS-9 from
MicroWare was released on that platform.[1]
I'd certainly concede that the Amiga was *way faster* at it, but a 68K
usually stomps a poor little <2Mhz 8-bitter... ;-)
It's entirely possible that other home computer platforms I don't know
about could multitask, but I doubt there were many (if any) that could do
it before the Tandy CoCo could.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] and Yes, this was true preemptive multitasking... I remember being very
disappointed with my first PC running DOS 3.3 (whaddya mean I have to exit
one program before starting another???) but with the VGA card & Game
Blaster audio card, boy howdy could that rascal play games! 16Mhz '386sx &
2Meg RAM... and it was a Nintendo. ;-)
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
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