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From: weamc@pyuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Buying your first home computer - (nf)
Message-ID: <365@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 09:41:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 09:41:01 1983
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Organization: Bell Labs, Piscataway
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All this talk about hardware is not to the point. It is the software
that counts. If you just want to play games, it doesn't matter very
much what you buy. If you want a real computer, the only operating
system that offers the power of a big system (e.g. a VAX) is OASIS.
OASIS is available for the Z80 and the 8086 family, and supports true
multi-user, multi-tasking processing.You don't have to buy a hardware
spooler because OASIS has a real system spooler. I would match my Z80
OASIS system against any other micro--CP/M, MS-DOS, etc.
   Just to give you an idea, CP/M uses about three tracks of a DD 8"
disk; OASIS uses two full sides of the same disk--a full megabyte of 
system software, including a macro assembler, a re-locatable loader,
a re-entrant BASIC, communications software, a de-bugger with a full set of
tools, a word processing package, real HELP files on every single command,
and much much more.
    
                   Andy Cohill  Western Electric, Piscataway, NJ