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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Lies, lies, they're telling us lies...
Summary: say what?
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Date: 30 Nov 89 02:50:59 GMT
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In article <5003@nigel.udel.EDU> acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
>Well, according to the IBM rep, there *is*.  And this is one place where I
>couldn't figure out if he was giving me a line of crap or not.  But he said
>that segmented architecture makes multi-tasking more efficient, because to
>change context you merely reload the code, data, and stack segments.  Instead
>of copying the entire contents of page zero, out and in, etc. etc.  Of
>course, whe I pressed him as to why 8 Mhz Amiga 1000's with 512K can
>multi-task better than his 33Mhz PS/2's he had no satisfactory answer,
>but still... for future reference, I'd like to know, is this a legitimate
>issue?
>
>       ///	"Hey OS/2, wanna race???"
>    \XX/	acm131@eric.ccs.northestern.edu

page zero? I thought only 6502's had zero page stuff to worry about?
Maybe the IBM salesman thought the Amiga ran on a 6502. Well, maybe
the IBM salesman's right, the IBM w/80386 multitasks a little bit better
than a commodore 64. Where do these people get these ideas?
Its a weird and stupid world we live in.

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