Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!evax!hill From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr12.110453.28378@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 11:04:53 GMT References: <46969@ut-emx.uucp> <12628@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 27 In article <12628@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: > >As an example of a tight operating system , consider the following: >GeoWorks Ensemble is a multitasking, virtual memory operating system >containing device independence and scalable outline font technology. >It runs on a 640K 8086 machine. > And let me say it runs DA*N WELLL on a 8086. We put that puppie on a 8086 with a 20M HD and CGA. IT WAS AMAZING. The day of assembly language IS NOT dead -- GeoWorks is proof. GeoWorks does have it's faults (Like no apps.) But as an example of what CAN BE done it is great. (Hey - Mike Schwartz could use this in the Lemming Flame War :-) ) ( I now return you to the silly NeXT war......) >David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu -- adam hill -- hill@evax.uta.edu ASOCC - University of Texas at UTA I programmed for three days Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA! And heard no human voices. Amiga... Multimedia NOW! But the hard disk sang. - TZoP Born To Run SVR4