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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4cmqtr$57u@serpens.rhein.de> <4covm0$49k@redstone.interpath.net> <philw-0801961014540001@philw.users.xplor.com>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0k0r@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 15 Jan 96 00:21:30 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <philw-0801961014540001@philw.users.xplor.com> philw@xlpor.com (P A Williamson) writes:
- >In article <4covm0$49k@redstone.interpath.net>, jamie@jamie.interpath.net
- >(Jim Cooper) wrote:
- >
- >> The first "home computer" to do pre-emptive multitasking was from a company
- >> named "Ohio Scientific" and it ran a version of OS/9.
- >
- > The Ohio Scientific systems were not quite what _I_ would consider a
- >"home computer".
-
- Huh? A colleague at our physics institute had a thing called
- OSI Superboard II. It was a one-board computer similar to Commodore's
- PET 20001, where a (normal) keyboard sat directly on the mainboard
- like the AIM-20. It was dirt cheap and fun to tinker with (my friend
- overclocked it from 1 MHz to 2.5, i.e. 250 %...).
-
- > It was a nice system though.:-) Geez, the thing nearly
- >needed a small bedroom to put it in.:-)
-
- They obviously built more than one model...
-
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