[rescue] Re: Extinct OSs

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Feb 11 20:59:38 CST 2002


On February 11, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> > Why not?  I'm not familiar with the amiga.
> 
> It's a 68K-series based machine with a very lightweight multitasking
> GUI-based OS that excels at things like video editing and special effects.

  Preemptive multitasking and a full-featured GUI on an m68k
floppy-based system with 512K of RAM.  Now *that* is a serious piece
of work.  Years ahead of its time.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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