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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 01:35:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 01:35:16 1987
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In article <992@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
<In article <8711040542.AA29099@violet.berkeley.edu>, mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, My watch has windows) writes:
<> I've continually pointed out that the Amiga didn't introduce
<> multitasking to the home computer market.
<
<Then who did? Not counting third-party software for the IBM-PC that doesn't
<run fast enough to be useful even on an AT? The Radio Shack Color Computer?

Sorry, but multitasking systems for home computers predate the IBM-PC
and the color computer.

OS/9 is old enough that the original version had a flavor that ran off
of a cassette deck.

But I don't recall whether it predates MP/M from Digital Research
(remember them?) or not. But both were first released nearly ten years
ago.

<> I've even been pointing out
<> that I can buy a cheaper multi-tasking, windowing system than an A500.
<
<OK. Name it. I hope you're not talking about the Radio Shack Color Computer
<or the Sinclair Quantum Leap. Those are the only ones I can think of and both
<are effectively dead puppies.

Yeah, I'm talking about the CoCo. It may be a dead puppy, but people
are still starting new hardware expansion products for it. Can the
same be said for the A1000? And people are also still doing software
work for it. So I'd say that it's got more life than the A1000.

In fact, the new one can have more memory than the A500 comes with,
and has an MMU.

	<mike
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