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From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Jackintosh vs Macintosh vs Amigo ?
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 22:43:07 EST
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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!)
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