From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:   
   >>Still, lack of multiprogramming shows that they were targetting   
   >>an audience that was pretty unsophisticated.  I get that the   
   >>hardware was limited, but Unix on the PDP-7 supported multiple   
   >>users in 8KiW of 18-bit memory in 1969.   
   >   
   >I cut my teeth on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/8   
   >   
   >Which supported multiple users in 8KW 12-bit memory in 1967.   
      
   My point exactly.  :-)  I get how PC designers may have wanted   
   to avoid timesharing, "hey, it's _my_ *personal* computer!", but   
   there was no excuse for not supporting multiprogramming.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)