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To: nickcarraway

The article's a little unsettling, because whatever else you can say about Commodore, it was never known for its quality control.

I remember the Amiga. Even tried to develop software for it. It was the most crashy computer I've ever seen before or since. Even early Windows looks half-decent by comparison. The screen would slide down and a big red box would appear with a "Guru Meditation" number.

The multitasking worked great, but of course if one application crashed so did the whole environment. That made the multitasking less than useful since you couldn't do anything in the background without having the foreground application crash and kill the machine :-(.

So I can't be too nostalgic for the Amiga, I'm afraid. And I don't see how it would make a Windows CE computer anything other than, well, a Windows CE computer.

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17 posted on 12/16/2005 2:31:20 PM PST by daviddennis (;)
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To: daviddennis
"And I don't see how it would make a Windows CE computer anything other than, well, a Windows CE computer.

Amiga OS is still being developed. The notorious unprotected memory scheme of the earlier Amiga is no more. 4.0 should be completed fairly soon.

25 posted on 12/16/2005 2:37:31 PM PST by Reactionary (The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
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