Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac jokes.. Message-ID: <1991May18.131231.28233@grebyn.com> Date: 18 May 91 13:12:31 GMT References: Organization: Grebyn Timesharing Lines: 24 In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > "Funny... I can go out and get an Amiga, with stereo sound, the only platform > on the market that can actually MULTITASK peacefully, > >I convinced my mother to dump her CoCo for an Amiga. ... > >Seems she's been running preemptive multitasking with a dynamic >priority system since before the first Amiga was powered on (I >convinced her to buy that one as well, and she never regretted it). On >a machine that costs less than an A500, at that. I had a CoCo, and OS9. It was wonderul, indeed. The only problem OS9 on the CoCo had was the hardware: there were too many uninterruptible processes which caused the responsiveness to drop off, floppy disk IO and serial IO in fact. (Now, they've both been fixed, with "no-halt" disk controllers and add-on serial ports. You know, I had thought of the "no-halt" idea myself...) I'd like to run OS9 again. Maybe I'll get OS-9000 for my PC. They've got X11R4 up and running now. But I doubt I could afford it. -- Richard Krehbiel, private citizen ckp@grebyn.com (Who needs a fancy .signature?)