Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: 8-bit death Message-ID: <1991May14.122949.8827@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <1991May12.180515.20191@NCoast.ORG> <3686.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May13.222839.8349@NCoast.ORG> Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 12:29:49 GMT In article <1991May13.222839.8349@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) writes: > (although I understand that the Amiga has the same no-protection > braindamage as every other baby system; I give up, I'll just get a Unix box). OK, Brandon. How would *you* build a consumer-priced machine in 1985 with memory protection. If you can, you'll be the first. The Amiga is basically the best machine that could have been built at that time for under $2000. Classifying hard design choices as "brain damage" is narrow minded and elitist. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .