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From: eachus@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Robert Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Dealers/Commodore
Keywords: real-time multitasking
Message-ID: <37257@linus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 19:16:09 GMT
References: <4322@cbmvax.UUCP> <1209@flatline.UUCP>
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Reply-To: eachus@mbunix (Robert I. Eachus)
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In article <1209@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>In article <4322@cbmvax.UUCP>, marc@cbmvax.UUCP (Marc Rifkin CATS) writes:
>> Just be glad ...
>> You have the only computer that REALLY
>> multitasks.
>
>Is this:
>
>a. a jab at OS/2, or
>b. a dogmatic statement that doesn't take into account the unix-pc or
>'86 based unix systems?

    How about c. A comment that the Amiga is the only REAL-TIME
machine that also does multi-tasking right.

>Oh yeah, don't forget the cocoIII running OS9 Level II.

    Please don't.  There was some talk once upon a time of porting OS9
to  the Amiga.  I  think this fell  through for  the  same reason that
Commodore can't give  the Transformer away  -- Amiga owners don't want
to give up all the other goodies just to get access  to  the available
software for some other OS.  What I would  like to see  is for someone
to  put  together a tool  to convert OS9 68K programs  to run from the
CLI...
					Robert I. Eachus