7 Jun
1998
7 Jun
'98
4:39 p.m.
Desie Hay wrote:
One of my other favorite Amiga stories was something I
swear I read in
AmigaWorld or Byte -- right after the A1000 came out, Gates had a press
conference to talk about Windows. Some reporter asked him about
multitasking, and Gates replied that multitasking really wasn't possible in
anything under 8 megs of ram. To which the same reporter replied, "But
doesn't
your own Amiga Basic multitask nicely on a 512k Amiga?"
A question which Gates promptly ignored and moved on.........
Especially since the TRS-80 Model 16, with the Xenix OS partly done
by Microsoft, multitasked (and multiusered) quite nicely even with
only 256K of RAM. Not to mention the Color Computer running OS-9 in
64K.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_