16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
8:49 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
> Amigas rock. A solid operating system with
preemptive multitasking
>and a GUI in 256K of RAM on a floppy-based system...Amazing!
I've even been known to make my Amiga
multi-user. I had 3
serial ports installed on my A4000, and had my Atari-ST emulating a
VT-100 terminal hooked up to one of them. I then redirected all
console I/O from an AmigaDOS shell to the serial port. The person on
the VT-100 could do whatever they wished as long as the it didn't
involve graphics or something that opened up a new window. I even
had a small IRC program that could be run like that if the A4000 was
online.
I did the same thing at a mate's house, so that we might sit with a VT-102 in
the kitchen and play MP3s on the Amiga back in his room. To do it on the
Amiga, I think one would type Newshell >AUX: , but I seem to remember that MS-
DOS actually had a similar ability.
What was the correct MS-DOS command line then?
>can't Microsoft get it right with thousands of
programmers, 800+MHz
>processors, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and gigabytes of disk space?
Because they lack orginality and would rather
swallow up
whatever smaller companies actually come up with original ideas?
Less time spent on R&D that way.
Amen. Just in the Amiga market, they swallowed Blue Ribbon, LZX (.CAB) and
ASDG. A real waste, too.
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