Article View: comp.sys.powerpc
Article #3065Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Ed Hanway
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:43
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:43
13 lines
1668 bytes
1668 bytes
Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : By using this great argumentation, CP/M-80, MSDOS, as well as all the : "operating systems" of the 8-bit micros (ZX-81, Spectrum, C64, etc) can be : qualified as "multitasking", because all of them were using interrupts. Minor quibble: CP/M did not require interrupts. Forgive me if my recollection is faulty, but I don't think the Ampro Little Board I had back in 1985 or so used interrupts. (Until I rewrote the BIOS to use them, that is.) -- Ed Hanway <hanway@ekfido.kodak.com> Eastman Kodak - Motion Picture & Television Imaging, Cineon Development Opinions expressed are my own, except the ones which aren't.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<4f6m8q$e72@thetimes.pixel.kodak.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4d428mINNe14@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4d9ui4$e63@macshack.com> <david-1401960302090001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu> <1996Jan26.192156@eigb> <jragosta-2601961539320001 <19960204.10AE3B8.A1B8@olympus.net> <nevin-0402961759250001@150.135.1.79> <9602051241.AA26686@dxmint.cern.ch>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!not-for-mail From: hanway@ekfido.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 6 Feb 1996 04:43:06 GMT Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <4f6m8q$e72@thetimes.pixel.kodak.com> References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4d428mINNe14@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4d9ui4$e63@macshack.com> <david-1401960302090001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu> <1996Jan26.192156@eigb> <jragosta-2601961539320001 <19960204.10AE3B8.A1B8@olympus.net> <nevin-0402961759250001@150.135.1.79> <9602051241.AA26686@dxmint.cern.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: vampire.ekfido.kodak.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0]