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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <7783@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 01:39:33 EST
Article-I.D.: g.7783
Posted: Fri Nov 27 01:39:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 18:48:53 EST
References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastks@pyr.UUCP writes:
>In article <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes:
>>I am a non-Amiga user.  I just found out that the Amiga is multi-tasking,
>>something for which I would kill.  However, if my sources are correct, the
>>A2000 only comes with 1 meg standard.  My question is: is this enough to
>>really use multi-tasking to its full extent?
>>	Johan Larson
>Where have you been, man...
>
>The PDP-11/23 can run Unix in 128K, not just muti-tasking but multi-
>user.  The DEC LSI-11 can do primative multitasking under RT-11 or
>Xinu in 64K!!!

Oh gee ... I can go better!

I think the all-time ultimate in cheap and small multi-tasking and
multi-user machines has to be the CoCo-1.  You put OS-9 L-1 into
it and you immediately have the capability to be multi-user and multi
tasking.  Tho, you're probably crazy to do anything other than multi
tasking on the CoCo-1.  (The CoCo-3 on the other hand ... but it's
too late in the game to have a powerful 8-bit machine really amount 
to anything)

Oh ... the CoCo-1 I'm talking about is:

	CoCo-1, 64K memory ... $300
	Disk controller, and two or 3 floppies ... $400
	80 column video card ... $70
	OS-9 ... $80

(in 1984-1985 prices, nowadays the 512K coco3 is less, and you don't
need an 80 column card)
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