Re: Amiga, multitasking

> Subject: Re: Multitasking
>
> Ken Jenkins wrote:... I think the old Amiga had multitasking
> even way-back-when didn't it?
>
> Ken,
>
> The Amiga 1000 had a FULLY pre-emptive multi-tasking OS which ran on
> ONE 1.4m Floppy!!! In 1985!!! Screen 640x400x4096 colors whan the
> rest of the world had 320x200x16!

Yep, I thought I remembered that right.

> Also Voice synthesizer. I used to have it read my documents to me.
>
> Amiga was purchased by Commodore, who never seemed to "get" what they
> had, and their poor marketing essentially killed it. They still
> exist, and can be found in "video" and "animation" usage.

Yes I followed that "saga" for a while ... what a completely
bone-headed mismanagement of some pretty impressive technology.

> NewTek's video toaster WAS an AMIGA disguised as a powerful video
> editor/char.generator.

Yep, had one. Used to do very good video tapes for marketing looooong
before Final Cut Pro and Apple G4's (which I use now).