Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Great big huge floppy disk? Message-ID: <224@mcdsun.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 14:12:06 EST Article-I.D.: mcdsun.224 Posted: Sun Jan 4 14:12:06 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 06:42:51 EST References: <346@csustan.UUCP> <5396@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> <1172@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1610@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division Lines: 19 In article <1610@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >I suspect the answer is: because they thought they were building >a "rock-shooter" (game machine) rather than a real computer. Actually, my understanding of the situation is that is exactly what they were building. Turning it into a "real computer" was an afterthought. It is also the last computer without some sort of (even rudimentary) MMU that I am going to buy. I'm getting awfully tired of errant processes trashing the system and other processes... -Fred -- =========================================================================== Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA {seismo!noao!mcdsun,hplabs!well}!fnf (602) 438-5976 ===========================================================================