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From: chrisd@oregon.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
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Date: 3 Aug 89 00:06:24 GMT
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In article <30339@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes:
> Somebody in the ST group stated that multitasking is useless on a home.
> without trying to start a war I posted that for most Amiga users, Technical
> as well as non-technical (me) I believe multitasking on a home computer has
> become second nature.  For me, it makes sense to be able to run Dpaint III and
> say "oops, I forgot to listen to that new Sonix score!" boot up and run Sonix,
> and say, "oops, I forgot I need to label my disks!", boot up the label program
> and .....:-)!!
> 
> Is multi-tasking second nature for most Amiga users?
> 
> -Evan
> _______________________________________________________________________________
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> |    Phone: (415) 643-6687                                                    |
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Yes.  Most positively, absolutely.  Can't imagine computing without it.  

:)