Greymaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> You clearly weren't paying attention to what the rest
>> of the microcomputer industry was doing while Gates was selling IBM
>> non-existent software. While IBM was introducing 16-bit processors and
>> DOS was doing a flat file system, Tandy was selliig systems - for a
>> fraction of the price of any MS-DOS based system - that were
>> multitasking, multiuser, had an optional windowing system that came
>> with a complete (for the time) office suite. Of course, that was while
>> Tandy still thought they could sell computers by selling better
>> computers than you could get running MS software.
> Was that the Color Computer III running OS9 Level II for an operating
> system, that you're talking about? Motorola 6809 processor? HELLUVA
> little computer! OS9 was a bit quirky, though, even for a UNIX clone.
Yup. OS9 wasn't really a Unix clone - it was designed as an embedded
OS for instruments, and last time I looked was still around, though
they had moved on to newer processors.
And if you think the Coco was a helluva little computer, you should
have seen what the Japanese weren't exporting.
<mike
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