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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:25:36 -0800 (PST)
The Amiga also had a full GUI system, sound, networking, WASN'T
written in assembler, shared libraries and all that neat stuff.
With faster hardware you get faster development times because they don't
need as "fine tuning" or "hacks".
I'd love to see you get sound on a PDP-11.
Keep in mind that the amiga did it all in the 80s what the PeeCee is
barely catching up to today(using seperate chips for specific tasks) on a
motorola 68000, so there :)
"You just made 10 bucks off that person's misery. That was
wrong." "Yeah. next time, $20." -- daria
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Dave Martindale wrote:
> Vincent Janelle <malokai@gildea.net> writes:
> >The amiga rocked unix. :) Thats just pride though, I know that
> >technically it sucked, although a fully multitasking OS in less than 1mb
> >of ram is pretty damn amazing.
>
> Really? I remember running UNIX on a PDP-11 with 48 Kwords (96 Kb)
> of memory. It was fully multitasking, complete with daemons running
> in the background for printing. With some more memory (I think 124 Kw),
> it supported 12 terminals with students writing and running course
> assignments.
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