Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)
Message-ID: <3247@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jan 89 01:19:15 GMT
References: <3222@sugar.uu.net> <5142@edm.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <5142@edm.UUCP>, rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
> From article <3222@sugar.uu.net>, by peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> > much better suited to the job. UNIX, for example. There are no other real-time
> > systems that let ordinary people, not control systems professionals, work
> > with and write non-trivial programs with a $1500 investment. I think the

> Unh, Have you considered OS-9?

Yes, I have.

> Granted, a 2MZ COCO isn't as fast as an amiga, but it IS a LOT cheaper...

Yeh, I know. It's really marvellous, and I hate Radio Shack's complete lack
of support for it. But with only 48K anything serious had to be written in
assembler.

>    [I STILL think that C-A would have been beter off with OS-9, but, c'est
> la vie.

Me too. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk... not that that ever
stopped me :->
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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