Max Eskin wrote:
>
> 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.
-----------------other---------------
You never will.
(Compare the CLI to the Unix Bourne shell sometime -- you'll notice
that sense of similarity known as plagiarism.)
> >> 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.
The Model 16 Xenix systems were MC68000, the Color Computers were
MC6809. The 16 _did_ have a Z-80 handling I/O, it was the original
Model II CPU -- since the Model II could have the boards added to
become a 16, and that's what the ports were coupled to.
--
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 Wed Jun 10 1998 - 22:25:04 BST