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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
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Subject: Re: Re: The Motorola 68030
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Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 14:50:07 EDT
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> ...the advantages of a protected OS.  A non-protected OS can suffer from
> misbehaved programs and slow context swaps (if its multitasking, which the
> MS-DOS operating system emphatically isn't.  Oranges vs. oranges, remember).
> A Turbo upgrade for an Amiga can deliver much the same level of performance
> as a Sun and still use standard off-the-shelf Amiga software and operating 
> system, and it can take advantage of the extra capabilities of the 68020.
> MS-DOS runs fine on a '286 PC, but it can't use the extended memory 
> addressing capabilities -- unless you kludge it, MS-DOS has a ceiling of 
> 640K.  AmigaDOS has a ceiling of 4 Gigabytes.  
> -- 
> ============================================================================
> Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

Quick trivia question:  How about MS-Windows?  That does multitasking...how
   well does it work an 80386?  I've almost been tempted to go to Computer-
   land and give it a try...
--
"Oh, I can't wait all my life                         Peter Merchant
 On a street of broken dreams."