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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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In article <1568@drivax.UUCP> socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (x6251))
writes a lot of advertising. I can't resist the urge to throw some
reality on it:

<Many industry #$@!s have stated that you can't do multitasking on a PC
<(or AT for that matter).  But,  DRI has had it available for years.

Ever since they did MP/M. I hope the current incarnation is better
than that one, where running everyones favorite menuing hack (which
nearly every large business package for CP/M used) could leave people
who hadn't invoked it in the menu.

I also hope that a few years of _not_ being a dominant force in the
micro market has convinced the DRI tech support to actually care. I
gave up on them years ago, and so can't say for sure.

<The Datapoint 2200 was sold about one year before the Intel 8008 (Yes, 8 0 0 8)
<was even available.  Machines, Business languages, Local Area Networks,
<second generation Operating Systems have been all done by Datapoint on a PC
<about five years before the PC marketplace did it.

Yes, DP did all that. On the flip side, if the PC market had the
capabilities that DP was peddling, it usually cost less than 1/5th of
what DP wanted for it. I.e., it was sold into the minicomputer market.
And if you went with the PCs, you got a reasonable architechture like
an eight-eightysux instead of the oddball stuff that DP was selling
(I'm _serious_; the DP architechture I looked at made an 8086 look
reasonable!)

	<mike

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