Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!AECLCR.BITNET!01659
From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Multitasking on the ST
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Date: 2 Aug 89 18:24:00 GMT
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It drives me nuts to see so many people worrying about multitasking on the
ST. Jeez, at 8 MHz on a 68000 without a co-processor, I'm having trouble
getting good performance running one application at a time. If a CPU intensive
app is running, I do not want to make it crawl any slower by asking the CPU
to service another application. Hell, most people crave multitasking but until
you have a 68030 and a co-processor or a 80386 and a co-processor, it ain't
worth worrying about for 99% of the users.

Want to run a word processor and a spreadsheet at the same time. No problem,
get REVOLVER and switch between apps. Want to generate huge dbMAN reports
and run .CMD files while executing another CPU intensive app - forget it!

Jumping between apps is OK on the ST. Running multiple, CPU intensive apps
is silly.

Yep the Amiga has multi-tasking; how many people REALLY benefit from it (I
know this will spark a "look at me" response but I'm talking widespread use
of multitasking, not isolated examples)?