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- From: stever1@llnl.gov (Robert Stever)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:45:23 -0800
- Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs
- Message-ID: <stever1-220196144523@128.115.112.4>
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- In article <4dtphg$3ig@redstone.interpath.net>, jamie@jamie.interpath.net
- (Jim Cooper) wrote:
-
-
- >
- > No confusion at all...
- >
- > The Ohio Scientific OS1 *shipped* with the OS/9 OS, several years before the
- > Amiga came out. Around 5 to 7 *years* before the Amiga came out.
- >
- > Yes, OS/9 is and has been available for nearly every other platform (including
- > the Amiga - from a guy in Australia), but the Ohio Scientific was the first in
- > the *home* computer class, and it was "the first *home computer* to be
- > *shipped* with a multi-tasking OS".
- >
- > I never even owned one of the beasts, but a friend did.
- >
- > --
- > Jim Cooper | World: jamie@interpath.com | "I-Net 225 is my life... or at
- > | BIX: jcooper | least it seems like it!" :-)
- >
- > Definition of Perfection: Dysfunctionally Challenged.
-
- --
-
-
- The first Ohio Scientific Inc. computer, the OS1 shipped in 1977, it
- required a cassette recorder to load and save basic programs. It also had
- the first StarTrek game in late 1977, on cassette at 600/1200baud. It had a
- 900Khz 6502 8bit processor and 1k of memory, 4K optional. It had a 40
- character by 20 line NTSC video output (B&W). The version with OS/9 shipped
- in 1978 and required the 5.25 inch floppy disc and interface. It was a very
- nice single board computer for its time and even cheap. I think I paid
- $279 for mine and i still have it and it still works, my 5 year old likes
- the games. I keep it along with my first A1000 (S/N <200) as a reminder of
- the good old days when computers were fun.
-
-
-
- If this program is so damned important........
- How did we get it?????????.
- __________________________________________________________________________
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