Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power? Message-ID: <816@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 21:45:36 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.816 Posted: Sat Dec 5 21:45:36 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 05:10:53 EST References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1150@sugar.UUCP> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 26 Summary: Cheap Amigados (almost) == Tripos In article <1150@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > >>A2000 only comes with 1 meg standard. ... enough to use multi-tasking...? > > >The PDP-11/23 can run Unix in 128K... RT-11 or Xinu in 64K!!! > > Multiuser OS/9... CoCo-1, 64K memory... > > OK. How about multiuser under PolyForth with something like 16K? Multitasking > with 4K ROM/2K RAM. (makes childish nyah nyah noises) Don't forget that the origins of Amigados are in Tripos. The original plans for the Amiga, according to legend (or is it fact?), were for a high zoot custom O/S. When, according to legend, the new O/S was pitifully behind schedule, Metacomco was contracted to do the work. Metacomco went with an established O/S, Tripos. Tripos ran on PDP 11s in a token ring network, so I've read. So I guess you could say that Amigados really runs in 64K if you strip out all the neat features (like bit mapped graphics, etc). Amigados does share some ancestry with Unix, as Tripos is written in BCPL, as were some early Unix kernels. I used to work in a lab where we ran MU-BASIC on a 32K word PDP 11-34 with 8 terminals and RT-11 O/S. One thing I do know is that it sure wasn't the equal of Amigados. --Bill