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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How to optimise OS 2.04+ / speedups
- Date: 17 Apr 96 21:18:45 +0500
- Organization: MountainNet, Inc. Morgantown WV 800.444.1458
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- KB> Amiga - Still the *only* pre-emptive prioritorisable multitasking
- KB> personal computer.
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- First, check the spelling of priorit-whatever above.
-
- And please don't forget the machine that did it first and was
- sometimes called a personal computer. The TRS-80 Color Computer,
- intro'd in 81? by Tandy, grew to a full 64k of ram before it got its
- first case facelift. That in turn allowed a Des Moines Iowa company
- called MicroWare to port their GMX operating system, OS-9, to the
- "CoCo" as it became named. Then in 85, a new version was intro'd
- that had as part of its graphic chip, a DAT (Data Address Translator)
- that allowed memory of be paged in and out of the 64k cpu space in 8k
- chunks. A limitation of that chip, since fixed by aftermarketeers,
- was a maximum of 512k of memory. The full version can have 2 megs.
-
- This machine is more like a unix box than the miggy can ever be
- unless the opsys is redone to make full use of the MMU by default.
- The current version of the opsys OS-9, is nearly as bulletproof as
- UNIX is! You've heard folks say they crashed a unix socket but never
- unix. Its quite rare, and usually a stack manipulation error by me
- when I manage to crash my CoCo.
-
- How do I know? Easy, theres one sitting on the next desk, and its
- the one I do all my programming on. If I have something usable on the
- miggy, it gets null modemed over and SAS/C has at it. But I gave up
- publishing those utils because I can't find any of my previous
- uploads anyplace on aminet. I should have at least 5 steadily
- improving versions of my print formatter in the text/print path.
-
- Cheers
-
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