Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg
From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the future?
Message-ID: <438@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 87 14:16:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: xios.438
Posted: Tue Dec  8 09:16:59 1987
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Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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#> Another trend...                     ...is that towards individual
#> (single-user) computers.  The future of multi-tasking on such machines is
#> very much in question...

#Does anybody seriously believe this?  I don't.

(nor I....)

Perhaps the real trend is to single tasks on single computers, but 
*lots* of computers in one box.  Now if Mr. Tramiel can get his 
Atari-as-Transputer going maybe we'll actually see this concept.

-- 
Greg Franks             XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue,
(613) 725-5411          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8
utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg    "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"