'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, at 7:16pm, Ken Ambrose wrote:
>> In Redmond's favor, any GUI is going to be somewhat of a memory hog.
> 
> My first Amiga, the A-1000, a truly GUI/multitasking box, came stock with
> 256K RAM, and ran fine.

  Oh, yeah, that reminds me: PC/GEOS, the core of GeoWorks Ensemble.  A
multitasking, multi-threaded, GUI, single imaging model, pervasively
object-oriented operating environment, running well in 640 KB on an 8 MHz
8088 processor.  It took up less than 10 MB on my hard disk (good thing,
too, since it was only a 20 MB disk).  I even hacked it down to the point
where it would run off a single 1.44 MB floppy.  It was slower than hell,
and didn't do very much, but it ran.

  The Amiga had a much better hardware design than the PC, of course.  I
would expect it to do better.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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