On (30 Apr 97) Craig Hart wrote to Daniel McGregor...
 CH> You've obviously never seen a Tandy coco3 with 512k RAM and os9
 CH> then... 68b09e power!! (FYI: OS9 is a multitasking OS that has it's
 CH> roots in unix... the coco3 is a <2MHz CPU'd system that had the
 CH> performance "feel" of desqview on a 486
 CH> with 8 megs of ram.... but in about 1983 or something... long before
 CH> multitasking was a reality on the PC Platform).
Unless somebody can show at least a little relevance to C++ here, I'm
going to ask that this thread be cut.
    Later,
    Jerry. (C_PLUSPLUS Moderator)
P.S. In any case, comparing multitasking of DOS programs to multitasking
of programs written to be multitasked is more or less nonsensical.
Minix multitasks quite well on an 8088 with 512K of RAM.
... The Universe is a figment of its own imagination.
--- PPoint 1.90
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