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From: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bus Master Boards
Message-ID: <8175@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 14:48:12 GMT
References: <1956@convex.UUCP> <8103@cbmvax.UUCP> <13998@grebyn.com> <6862@ingr.com>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA)
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In article <6862@ingr.com> phil@ingr.UUCP (Phil Johnson) writes:
>In article <13998@grebyn.com> brian@grebyn.UUCP (Brian Bishop) writes:
>
>>     Ahhh!!!!   Yes, this sums up the nasty feeling I have about 'BM
>>entirely.   You see, I have this nightmare that I am a 40 year-old
>>hacker somwhere (I'm 24 now) and someone offhandedly mentions that IBM
>>invented multitasking when they released OS/2. Aiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
>
>I BEG your pardon, forty is fine 8-{).
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                      I wholeheartedly agree! :-)

>
>You can bet IBM will announce their discovery of a new approach to computing.
>They will dub it multitasking and the official name will be OS/2.

   IBM did pretty much the same thing in the mainframe world. Honeywell and
   Burroughs had multi-tasking/multi-processing machines circa 1960. Yet IBM
   'discovered' multi-tasking with the release of System/370. Go figure.
 
>
>They did this with 5 1/4 inch floppies about 7 or eight years ago and have
>mentioned a new more portable media in a smaller size in the past 2 years.
>
>I can hardly wait for this new inovation maybe they have developed a disk that
>will fit in a shirt pocket. WOW!