22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
3:09 p.m.
On 11/23/06, Roger Merchberger <zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com> wrote:
Rumor has it that Richard may have mentioned these
words:
I think the big difference was "at the same time". The A2088 rendered
to an Intuition-compatible "screen" - i.e., you could pull down the
Workbench screen in front and see both the DOS processor and the Amiga
processor doing things at the same time, on the same monitor. Of
course, there was still only one mouse, one keyboard, and one human,
so to a certain extent, there was a limit to how well one could
exploit that situation.
I guess one common example would be to download something from a BBS
on the Amiga side while one played games on the DOS side - the
computer was doing something useful that didn't require your attention
while you could be doing something entirely unrelated, and at full
speed.
-ethan
In article <4564CAB2.70805 at
dunnington.plus.com>,
Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> writes:
And if this is the case, wouldn't a PC with a Trackstar board qualify as
well, as it could run MS-DOS (natively) and AppleDOS/ProDOS (whatever - I
was never that big into Apples) on the Trackstar? I think it's because it was the first home
computer that could run two
OSs *at the same time* -- ISTR there was a way to run an MS-DOS and an
Amiga OS program at the same time.
I thought this was only possible with the later models and the Janus
card?