> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Deano Calver wrote:
>
> So Commodore thought they could be successful at defying convention by
> giving the stripped down model a higher model number?
>
One other thing the Amiga featured from Day One was multitasking, even on the base 256k
model. Apple didn't offer that until way later.
Plus, the built-in sound chips were way beyond anything Apple was offering at the time.
Remembering reading a cool article back in the day -- Microsoft had a press conference
about something, and Gates was spouting off about multitasking. He said that there was no
way to multitask in anything under 8mb of ram.
A reporter in the back raised his hand and asked if Bill was aware that his own AmigaBasic
would multitask on a 256k Amiga 1000.....
Gates pretended he didn't hear and moved to the next question.
Paul Braun
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_at_ctgonline.org
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Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 16:23:08 BST
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