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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MacMultitasking...almost
Message-ID: <2594@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 88 17:41:09 GMT
References: <8802100646.AA16770@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1894@leo.UUCP> <2909@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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In article <2909@swan.ulowell.edu> ross@swan.ulowell.edu (Ross Miller) writes:
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>Alliant doesn't seem to have a problem mixing unix up with CE's and IOP's.
>I believe the IOPs are 68020's.

1 million ?

>CDC 825 (don't know if this environment is still for sale) ran NOS, NOS/VE, 
>and an unix sys V clone all at once.  Note that the processor was switching
>instruction sets and memory managment schemes in mid stream.  Quite a nice
>idea, and it worked.  The hardware was great, but the software was
>a different matter entirely.  I remember one of the engineers looking
>at incredously when I asked for wild cards in the SCL for NOS/VE.

4 million ?

>	The Amy is nice technology for personal computers, but it is 
>by no means the forfront of technology today.

For $1000.00 it is...

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On a related note.  Remeber that smee fella in the UK that started
this heinous "multitasking - a nightmare" bull ?

Well, he and I have been talking, ant what it really comes down to
is he thinks multitasking is pretty neat, and thinks it is usefull
for your average joe, but when one process steps on another all
the benefits are negated.

Can you say 68020 ?  Can you say MMU ?



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