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From: bradch@microsoft.UUCP (Bradford Christian ms1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
Message-ID: <7252@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 00:25:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bradch@microsoft.UUCP (Bradford Christian ms1)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Who needs this multi-tasking bother anyway!  Here at work, I just use
two Compaq 386/20's and an AT.  Oh yea, there's the handy hex calculator
too.  Oops, and here's a terminal I use to connect to Xenix and one of
my Compaqs.  It's not too much of a bother to reconnect it to differnet
Xenix servers.  And there's my desk clock.  Most people here add a mac
or two to the above setup.  No, we don't need multi-tasking...  ;^)

Of course, at home I can't afford $30K worth of equipment, so I have to
get by with this whimpy little Amiga.  You know, the "toy" computer.
Of course, I have a clock and calculator just a mouse click away.  And
I always forget about that terminal program running host mode in the
background.  And then there's the fact that I always have Intuition
running and a couple of Shells, and my editor, and the developement
system in RAM, etc.  Multi-tasking just gets in the way.

The other day I was debugging a Windows program.  It hung, so I rebooted,
started the debugger, loaded the program and found out where it hung and
had to reboot again to "clean the system."

The other day I was debugging an Amiga program.  It hung, so I popped-up
another CLI, ran the debugger, selected my program, found out what I had
a bogus value, changed said value, continued my program, and quit the
debugger.

Naw, I never use multi-tasking.