8 Jun
1998
8 Jun
'98
10:32 a.m.
But there's a difference between a Z-80 running a text-mode interface,
and an 8088 running a GUI. Also, remember that Bill Gates didn't know
very much about operating systems, as opposed to languages. MS Windows
is the only OS MS programmed ground up, something they only started
after the A1000. And, I've never seen Windows multitask under 8MB in the
way the Amiga or a UNIXoid computer can.
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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_
10 Jun
10 Jun
6:25 p.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
But there's a difference between a Z-80 running a text-mode interface,
and an 8088 running a GUI. Also, remember that Bill Gates didn't know
very much about operating systems, as opposed to languages. MS Windows
is the only OS MS programmed ground up, something they only started
after the A1000. And, I've never seen Windows multitask under 8MB in the
way the Amiga or a UNIXoid computer can.
-----------------other---------------
You never will.
(Compare the CLI to the Unix Bourne shell sometime -- you'll notice
that sense of similarity known as plagiarism.)
>> 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.
The Model 16 Xenix systems were MC68000, the Color Computers were
MC6809. The 16 _did_ have a Z-80 handling I/O, it was the original
Model II CPU -- since the Model II could have the boards added to
become a 16, and that's what the ports were coupled to.
--
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_
11 Jun
11 Jun
5:47 a.m.
At 11:25 PM 6/10/98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
(Compare the CLI to the Unix Bourne shell sometime -- you'll notice
that sense of similarity known as plagiarism.)
Huh? The AmigaDOS CLI - and I'm talking 1.0 as opposed to later
editions and common customization and corruptions that did smell
like Unix by design - didn't seem like any Unix shell I knew.
Its Tripos and BCPL origins seemed quite weird to my senses.
And "plagiarism"? Don't you mean "tribute"? :-)
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