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- From: bruce@rpl.regina.sk.ca (Bruce Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 05:56:55 GMT
- Organization: You Must Be Kidding
- Message-ID: <4ct037$4sn@tomcat.sasknet.sk.ca>
- References: <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4cmqtr$57u@serpens.rhein.de> <4covm0$49k@redstone.interpath.net> <philw-0801961014540001@philw.users.xplor.com>
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- In article <philw-0801961014540001@philw.users.xplor.com>, P A Williamson wrote:
- :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". It was a nice system though.:-) Geez, the thing nearly
- :needed a small bedroom to put it in.:-)
-
- Aw shucks - tweren't that big. After I put the 32K expansion and disk
- controller board in, along with the second fan, and the floppy auto spin
- down board - there was still room in the box for the color display
- board. Honest there was. And no, you can't visit my room 'cause I have
- to clean up the mono high density display board project and the sound
- board and ... Okay, it did end up taking over my room. But finally
- getting OS 3.3 for the sucker (They finished it even after the company
- went out of business - NOT like a certain other "nameless" computer
- company) really made it great computer. Could have given Apple a real
- run for the market. [p.s. I'm talking about the C1, nobody could afford
- the C4 color model, could they??]
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- this signature being renovated ... excuse the mess
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