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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
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Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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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


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