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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS is real-time?
Message-ID: <362@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 01:20:14 GMT
References: <16100@louie.udel.EDU> <18874@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <18874@cup.portal.com> chad@cup.portal.com (Chad The-Walrus Netzer) writes:
>	No, The Amiga is one of the first computers in the world to use an
>Imaginary-time operating system.

Are you sure? I'd been told (by People Who Should Know) that the IBM PC
had an imaginary operating system.

>In fact, if you hold an Amiga perpendicular
>to a real-time OS computer, you can make Mandelbrot sets...

Ah, a little math humor. Clever; separate the men from the boys, eh?
A little in-joke, nudge, nudge, know what I mean? A nod's as good
as a wink to a blind bat, eh?
	Doug
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