Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68vs86 (flame?) Message-ID: <306@kontron.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 12:34:21 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.306 Posted: Mon Jul 1 12:34:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 00:25:14 EDT References: <253@kontron.UUCP> <2328@sun.uucp> <260@kontron.UUCP> <2350@sun.uucp> Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 36 >> If I can't put my machines whole attention on a task when I want to... >> [personal peeve] > Definitely personal; I'd go batty on a single-tasking system no matter how > fast it was, unless it was *so* fast that I never had to wait for it to > complete any of the tasks (and even then I'd sorely miss having multiple > windows). > Guy Harris I use my machine mostly for telecommunications, but what I really like to do is crunch pixels. When doing image enhancement or analysis, even a small overhead can drastically extend how long it takes to process a frame. (This is what I do for myself, at home, on a Commodore 64 with a 12.5 mhz 68000 attached processor board (Dtack grounded) - what I do at work is completely different.) If/when the Atari ST and/or Amiga hit the market, I plan to choose one or the other as my new home system - and then find an implementation of OS-9 to put on it. (Yes, OS-9 is multitasking) My home system is the only one I can count on having access to. In this business you never know what machine you are going to be using from month to month. I have to choose very carefully what I want at home, as the computer budget competes for money with the beer budget. Do you have a "home" system? If you don't what would you (really) be able to buy and what software would it run? -Steve McIntosh, Kontron Electronics, Irvine CA [My opinions are my own, and fairly unpopular..] {{ Don't give robots artificial intelligence - give them the real thing - then run for the hills.}}