Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg From: elg@killer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Horizontal pipelining Message-ID: <2326@killer.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 18:58:42 EST Article-I.D.: killer.2326 Posted: Sat Dec 5 18:58:42 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 01:48:30 EST References: <201@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <388@sdcjove.CAM.UNISYS.COM> Reply-To: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) Organization: Bayou Telecommunications Lines: 22 In article <1006@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >In article <2581@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes: >>Another trend which might doom the idea is that towards individual >>(single-user) computers. The future of multi-tasking on such machines is >>very much in question; if it becomes a big thing, there is no problem. > >Hopefully, multi-tasking will some year come to single-user computers :-) Actually, multi-tasking single-user computers have been available for years. OS-9 on the TRS-80 Color Computer, for example, and AmigaDOS on the Commodore Amiga. Just because the IBM PEE-CEE and Apple Macintosh don't have a multitasking oprating system, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is stuck with single tasking (and note that both IBM and Apple intend to introduce multitasking OS's Real Soon Now). I think that we'll see the demise of ancient CP/M-derived operating systems Real Soon Now (as Marketing would say :-). -- Eric Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again....