Early Mac Clones

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sun Jun 7 23:39:32 1998

Desie Hay wrote:

> One of my other favorite Amiga stories was something I swear I read in
> AmigaWorld or Byte -- right after the A1000 came out, Gates had a press
> conference to talk about Windows. Some reporter asked him about
> multitasking, and Gates replied that multitasking really wasn't possible in
> anything under 8 megs of ram. To which the same reporter replied, "But
> doesn't
> your own Amiga Basic multitask nicely on a 512k Amiga?"
>
> A question which Gates promptly ignored and moved on.........

Especially since the TRS-80 Model 16, with the Xenix OS partly done
by Microsoft, multitasked (and multiusered) quite nicely even with
only 256K of RAM. Not to mention the Color Computer running OS-9 in
64K.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Sun Jun 07 1998 - 23:39:32 BST

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