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From: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <23767@gryphon.COM>
Date: 24 Dec 89 13:03:37 GMT
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Reply-To: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <627@bogart.UUCP> jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>Yep, that's a processor limitation.  However, OS/2 programs have access to
>1GB of virtual space.  Why don't you call me when you upgrade your 68000-based
>Amiga beyond 16MB of physical RAM and an operating system with true
>memory management and protection.

From another angle, why do you think it has taken so long for Windows and
OS/2 to make it to the marketplace?  Something wrong with Microsoft?  No,
simply because there are a hell of a lot of snags in developing complex 
programs in '86 family machine language.  Several more than the equivalent
developments in the 68K family.

Note that Unix was available on the '86 family relatively promptly,
also note that Unix was already designed, and most of it is written in 'C', 
not machine language.

Keith Doyle
keithd@gryphon.COM    gryphon!keithd     gryphon!keithd@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov