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- From: 1726@topcity.mn.org (Michael M. Rye)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 16:47:45 GMT
- Organization: Minnesota Regional Network (MRNet)
- Message-ID: <3207.6594T627T2962@topcity.mn.org>
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- >In article <philw-1701961825220001@philw.users.xplor.com>,
-
- [snip miscellaneous stuff]
-
- >I was running a COCO 3 with OS/9 level II, 512K RAM and a 2 40 track and
- >one 80 track disk drives (the 80trk was like the hard drive :-), when I
-
- Sounds like a decent CoCo 3 setup to me! I even had an actual Seagate
- SCSI hard drive on mine, with a Disto no-halt controller.
-
- >first went to college, and long before I ever saw an Amiga. At college
- >was when I first saw an Amiga (A1000) that a guy down the hall was using.
- >Initially, I wasn't all that impressed because there wasn't really
- >anything I couldn't do with OS/9 that he was doing on the Amiga; and the
- >OS/9 was still under $100. Nowadays you could probably pick up a copy
- >for $5 to $20!
-
- Yea, I saw my first Amiga when I was in high school, then again in
- college. I was impressed by what it could do. The CoCo 3 did have
- its merits though, especially when running OS/9 in 512K of memory.
- 128K running that OS just didn't leave much room for anything else.
- As a matter of fact, I think I remember OS/9 being available for the
- Amiga??!?!? Anyone remember that?
-
- >After a while I started seeing things that impressed me more and the
- >first two things that really impressed me were the old Accolade Test
- >Drive and a version of Videoscape. The audio, sliding screens, and its
- >animation capabilities got me hooked. Shortly after that I found a
- >full system I could pick up for about $600. A while after I had my
- >own system I realized that THIS was the amazing machine I was reading
- >about a year or two prior to 1985... and at the time I figured a system
- >that could do all those things would be $thousands$ - something I could
- >never afford!
-
- Yeppers, the program that got me hooked on the Amiga was the game
- "Shadow Of The Beast" (the original). With it's multi-level, multi-speed
- scrolling backgrounds, and awesome music and sound effects, I was sold!
-
- >Despite now having a Warp accelerated A4000 with all the goodies like
- >CyberVision, Gigs of HD, tons of RAM, using a wide variety of workstations
- >and seeing most OSs available over the past 15 years or more... I still
- >think that OS/9 is a nice, efficient OS that can still cut the mustard
- >even on a < 2MHz machine.
-
- Yeppers, so do I. Ran pretty nice on my hard drive with the system
- "speeded up" to 2 MHz via the "poke" trick I always used to use.
-
- >--
- >=======================================================================
- >Jeffrey W. Davis (317)451-0503 Domain: c23jwd@eng.delcoelect.com
- >Software Engineer UUCP: deaes!c23jwd
- >Delco Electronics Corporation GM: 8-322-0503 Mail: CT40A
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