Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Jackintosh vs Macintosh vs Amigo ? Message-ID: <250@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 22:43:07 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.250 Posted: Fri Mar 1 22:43:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:57:55 EST References: <1342@hou4b.UUCP> <8284@watarts.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 20 They had a full page article on atari and their chances for making a comeback in the February 10 business section of the N.Y. Times. Near the end of the article they said that one of the advantages of the amiga over the ST line would be multitasking capability. I somehow doubt though that they have put in a mmu chip to do this. More likely is that the bundled turbo pascal generates relocatable code and thus is limited to 32kbyte segments. I am not sure that this would be an advancement as it brings back one of the worst features of the IBM pc namely segmentation, except that it is even worse since at least you can have 64k segments in the pc. If you want a true multitasking environment I can bet that you probably won't find it in these machines. Of course neither can the IBM pc(excluding AT) or the macintosh. (Hey,I like the new name of the Commodore 68k machine, eh amigo!) -- ARPA: eneevax!ravi@maryland UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi