22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
12:34 p.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
:-)
I only ever had an A500 (and gained a second one by accident a few years ago
;) and I never have been big on remembering names for things, which seemed a
requirement for much of that quiz!
cheers
Jules
Jules Richardson wrote:
Yeah, I remember having a PC emulator for my A500. It was sloooow, but it did
work.
Of course I suppose there was nothing stopping someone doing a two-OS machine
on a BBC micro with a suitable copro back in 1982, but I don't think anyone
ever did it (all the configurations that spring to mind took control of the
BBC side and used it purely as I/O)*
* did the A500 have any memory management hardware worth speaking of? I don't
*think* it did, but I could be wrong...
I suspect that Commodore's claim came with strings attached, and that the quiz
just didn't reproduce the fine print...
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"
(or words to that effect) - surely plenty of systems had existed
before the
Amiga which could do just that. They might have been big and
expensive, but
I'm sure it wasn't a new concept.
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 got 11 out
of 30. I suck. :-)
That's the same as I got, which I thought was not too bad considering I
have avoided Amigas of all sorts.