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The Amiga had to be sold with a minuscule amount of memory to have any chance in the home computer market. Memory at this time was very expensive and UNIX would
by bni 5y ago
The Amiga had to be sold with a minuscule amount of memory to have any chance in the home computer market. Memory at this time was very expensive and UNIX would have required too much of it.
- rbanffy 5y agoI'm not user that much memory would be needed in the lower end models. A home computer would run on single-user mode and that wouldn't need a lot of the extra memory structures a multi-user environment needs.
- reaperducer 5y agoFWIW, a mid-1980's high-end multi-user CP/M system I was looking at has 1 meg of RAM for four users: 64K for each user, and the rest to run the system. It was in the $8,000 range, without the terminals.
- rbanffy 5y agoAn Amiga 1000 came with 256K of RAM for a single user. The 500 came out with at least twice as much. The TRS-80 Model 16 came with 128K and Xenix, about five years before the 1000. A Unix-based Amiga 1000 would be completely feasible.
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