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From: dragon@trwspf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and some history lessons
Message-ID: <307@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 02:22:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwspf.307
Posted: Thu Jun 18 02:22:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 07:31:49 EDT
References: <8706040024.AA10895@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <2194@husc6.UUCP> <286@l5comp.UUCP> <163@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler)
Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <163@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
*Some of us remember the days when UNIX systems didn't have tons of RAM. At
*one place we had 8 users running on a PDP 11/40 with 256 K words of RAM. On
*the PDP-11 you had 128K MAX per process. When faced with these constraints
*and the lack of incentive to do much graphics (because you didn't have any)
*UNIX programs tended to be small and tight. It used to be that you could code
*the world in 64K.

Amen, brother, Amen! And we did code the world in 64K, too, clobbering some
of our competitors in the process. I struggled for five years ('75->'80) to
get UNIX established in our company only to watch it expand during the next
six years like a cost overrun on some government contract. Yuki! I hope
that this does not happen to AmigaDOS or any other operating system which
may be written for the Amiga. Graphics does not have to add that much either.
I have worked with Liliths and Modula-2 for the past three years which have
shown that you can do some pretty neat stuff with a small simple system.
Although C is not my cup of tea, the Amiga is neat. Let's keep it that way. 
-- 
-- Roger A. Vossler
   TRW, Bldg O2-1395, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
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