15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
5:23 a.m.
On Thursday 15 November 2007 00:01, woodelf wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
That name does sound vaguely familiar, though I couldn't tell you anything
more than that.
Multi-user in an 8-bit context doesn't sound
real terrific to me, for
some reason, though I don't see a problem with multiprocessing if it's
done right.
Well the idea of muilt-processing on a 8 bit cpu (6809) sounds
nice. You know a floppy, hard drive, serial I/O (low speed) all going
at once could help a user use software effectively.
Still waiting ... too bad GIMIX is not around anymore. Ben alias woodelf
PS. I don't want a COCO 3 instead, I want a REAL computer.
(Well I have PDP 8 for my real *classic* computer :).
Well, there were pluses and minuses about the CoCo. The big minus for me was
that the basic machine all by itself wasn't up to doing much. And by the
time you got everything al ltricked out, you were talking some decidedly
nontrivial money...
OTOH, that setup was actually pretty neat, once you got there. Or so it
seemed to me anyway, looking it it from the outside.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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