Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art Message-ID: <1991Apr3.190114.10988@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 19:01:14 GMT References: <7840@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Apr2.030653.10978@NCoast.ORG> <1991Apr2.172222.27446@ncsu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 15 In article <1991Apr2.172222.27446@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: > ... and as did CROMIX (1980-ish), Oasys (1982-ish), and several others. > Come to think of it, it very well could be that the Amiga OS was the > first multitasking personal computer OS _without_ multiuser features. I don't class the Cromemco Z-2 as a personal computer. Yes, it's pitifully weak by today's standards, but it was a $10K machine. To me, a personal computer that costs more than a small car is an oxymoron. Plus, it didn't really have multi-user protection if you had access to a compiler. You need more than bank-switched Z80s for that. The same is true, by the way, of OS/9 on the Color Computer. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .