Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!david 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 Lines: 37 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) -- <---- David Herron -- Resident E-Mail Hack<---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- "The market doesn't drop hundreds of points on a normal day..." -- <---- Fidelity Investments Corporation