CH> >  1.8mhz is worse than any computer I've seen. Including Macs and even
CH> >  8086's(4.77mhz) But... you'll never know... :)
CH>You've obviously never seen a Tandy coco3 with 512k RAM and os9 then... 
68b0
CH>power!! (FYI: OS9 is a multitasking OS that has it's roots in unix... the
I'm _very_ surprised you recognized it!
That's exactly what I used.  I still have most of my CoCo stuff in
storage, including a bunch of spare software I never got around to
selling. I still lurk in the CoCo and OS9 echos.
CH>coco3 is a <2MHz CPU'd system that had the performance "feel" of desqview 
on
CH>486with 8 megs of ram.... but in about 1983 or something... long before
That's why I didn't switch for so long.  It did almost everything I
wanted it to do.  Not everything though, which is why I eventually
switched.
Even my WYSIWYG ran smoother on a 128k 1.8mhz CC3 than they do on a
386/25 with 4megs.
CH>multitasking was a reality on the PC Platform).
The CC3 came out in 86.  The CC1/2 came out in, what, 81? and the OS9
Level 1 was also available shortly after that for the 64k CC1/2s.  OS9
Level 2 was for the CC3 and had all sorts of things, including a
reasonably nice windowing system, multiple screens and windows,
multi-tasking, multi-user, graphics better than the EGA of the time,
etc. etc. etc....
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