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Amiga Multitask
« on: August 28, 2012, 04:40:52 PM »
I find it quite cool that Amiga in 1985 could multitask, with as low as 250 kb ram, not even Windows 3.1 could multitask, you could only use one program at the time. The Amiga was ahead of its time in 1985, and some years to come :-) I only wish i had an Amiga 1000 :-) it looks like a nice machine. Are any of you lucky enough to own an Amiga 1000?
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Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2012, 05:41:52 PM »
Quote from: JimS;705679
I still have my original A1000 purchased new in 86 or so.... it's resting in it's box right now. ;-) retired after years of service.


Do you ever power it up to see if it still works :)
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2012, 05:14:38 AM »
Quote from: bitcpy;705769
Let's not forget about Quarterdeck Desqview and Desqview/X. It ran on a 386 with 640kb of RAM and if you had extra memory, it could be mapped by QEMM and made usable by Desqview.
 
1985 was an interesting year because Desqview was released in July, AmigaOS was released in October,  and Windows followed shortly after in November.
 
Desqview was actually the first multi-tasking OS I used and shortly after that I purchased my Amiga 1000.
 
It was amazing what programmers were able to do with such little resources back then.
 
These days, I think most programmers take for granted the abundance of resources available (GB's of RAM, TB's of HD, etc, etc). I think it makes for lazy programming and a constant bloat of our OS's and applications.
 
That's why I like to look back and use some of these great machines of those times; it reminds you of what can be done within confined specs.


Yes it was amazing what they could do back then with so little. I come to think of my first computer a Commodore 64 :) with only 64 kb of ram, i know it was not the same as Amiga, but still it could do wonderful things in the hands of the right people. The pc i am using now has 60000 times more ram than a Commodore 64
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2012, 02:57:58 PM »
Quote from: stefcep2;705797
One impressive example I saw was of a "high seas sailor" acquaintance I knew, who ran an A4000 with a warp engine+scsi and picasso 4 with a Magellan set up: web, IRC, burning playstation , ahem "back-ups" ( 4 burners going), running x-copy with 4 floppy drives, downloading files continuosly, playing mods in the background, and he was bringing up listers, creating folders of software "packages" that we wanted, and he ran a BBS at the same time.  Windows 98 had just come out, but next to this Amiga, it was a toy.

And for all the "no memory protection" arguments, here was an amiga that had up time in the months, doing all sorts of crap, but this was in the hands of a guy who really knew how to set it up right.

I would then go home to my 2mb A1200 and cry myself to sleep....


Hi that sounds very cool than An Amiga 4000 could do all that. He must realy has know how to get the most of that girl :)
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2012, 02:58:32 PM »
Quote from: stefcep2;705797
One impressive example I saw was of a "high seas sailor" acquaintance I knew, who ran an A4000 with a warp engine+scsi and picasso 4 with a Magellan set up: web, IRC, burning playstation , ahem "back-ups" ( 4 burners going), running x-copy with 4 floppy drives, downloading files continuosly, playing mods in the background, and he was bringing up listers, creating folders of software "packages" that we wanted, and he ran a BBS at the same time.  Windows 98 had just come out, but next to this Amiga, it was a toy.

And for all the "no memory protection" arguments, here was an amiga that had up time in the months, doing all sorts of crap, but this was in the hands of a guy who really knew how to set it up right.

I would then go home to my 2mb A1200 and cry myself to sleep....


Hi that sounds very cool than An Amiga 4000 could do all that. He must realy has know how to get the most out of that girl :)
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 05:35:06 PM »
Quote from: gertsy;705879
The first Amiga (to be known as the Amiga 1000) was special. Revolutionary.

Memory was the ceiling for multitasking for all PCs until relatively recently (Last 12 years) Because it was so expensive and usually programs were written to use all that a standard configuration supplied.
Windows 95 had 32 Bit preemptive multitasking with 32 Bit application protection. But you needed a lot of memory to run multiple programs. Luckily you couldn't install pizz poor marketing bullcrap onboard most MBs.


Hi was Windows 95 not one of the first "good" Windows?
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 05:50:11 PM »
Quote from: MiAmigo;707692
My personal vote would actually go to Windows 98SE. Windows 95 did introduce a new, much more sleek and streamlined interface, which became the de facto standard for a long time, basically changing over from the clunky old 'kindergarten' style of 3.1.


Are there 2 versions of Windows 98?
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 06:33:26 PM »
Quote from: MiAmigo;707695
Yes, 'SE' stands for Second Edition.


I still have a PC with Windows 98, so i can play older games, but i do not know if it is SE or not :) i have heard that Windows 2000 and Windows Vista is some of the worst of the newer Windows.
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
 

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Re: Amiga Multitask
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 07:24:06 PM »
Quote from: spirantho;707701
You're confusing Windows 2000 - which was the good bits of NT without the bad bits of XP (but with hardly any drivers) - with Windows ME which was .. er, well, rubbish, basically.


Yes it was Windows ME i was thinking of. Everybody was looking forward to the new Millenium Edition. But it did not quite live up to the expectations :)
Amiga 4000 030 18 MB ram. 16 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 030 34 MB ram. 8 Gb HD.
Amiga 1200 Tower Apollo 1240
Amiga 2000 030. 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 5 MB ram. 500 MB HD.
Amiga 2000 68000 9 MB ram. 1 Gb HD.
Amiga 600 4 MB ram. 4 GB HD.
Amiga 600 1 MB ram. 60 MB HD.
Amiga 500 1 MB ram.
Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D