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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Amiga in cinema (again)
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Date: 15 Sep 88 04:18:13 GMT
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In article <3248@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>       It seems that most people are willing to live without multitasking
>or settle for a limited form of multitasking.  So while multitasking is a
>definite plus, I doult if it is the reason for people to buy the Amiga over
>something else.   

There were two reasons I bought an Amiga:

	non-brain dead processor (68000)
	multitasking OS.

Prior the the Amiga, the micro I used was an S100 based Z-80 system, built
board by board, long before these `PC' things became fashonable.  The Amiga
was the first affordable computer to come along to give me significantly
more capability that that old 48K, 4MHz Z80 with two 180K disk drives.

Wow.  And I actually did useful work on such a small system.  And OS/2
requires, what, that much memory for the second level bootstrap?




Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming