But there's a difference between a Z-80 running a text-mode interface,
and an 8088 running a GUI. Also, remember that Bill Gates didn't know
very much about operating systems, as opposed to languages. MS Windows
is the only OS MS programmed ground up, something they only started
after the A1000. And, I've never seen Windows multitask under 8MB in the
way the Amiga or a UNIXoid computer can.
>> 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_
>
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Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 14:32:32 BST