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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 13:54:38 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4h9gee$k4r@sinsen.sn.no>
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- Joaquin Menchaca (Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com) wrote:
-
- : Really 32bit real-time multitasking. How is that done on a 16bit 7Mhz
- : 68000 processor?
-
-
- To a programmer it looks like a 32bit cpu. It behaves externally
- like a 32bit CPU, even though it has a 16bit databus .
-
- The 680x0 didn't really become full 32bit cpu's before the
- 68020 arrived.
-
- How it can multitask on a 7mhz 68000 in 1 Mb ?
- Because it had an extremely well-written multitasking OS from
- the very beginning, very much unlike some other crappy OS'es
- I could mention...
-
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