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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
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 18:58:42 1987
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Reply-To: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
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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 :-).

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