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From: mitchell@janus.uucp (Evan Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST
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Date: 2 Aug 89 18:49:59 GMT
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In article <8908021826.AA05333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
>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
>
>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)?

I'm not a power-user, I don't program, most of the time I just play around
with my computer.  I own an Amiga, I'm almost "typical" of Amiga (Widespread)
user's and I can honestly admit, computers that don't multitask don't make
sense to me.  Everytime I use a mac, pc, st, etc. I always get frustrated
because I can only do one (or a select few) thing at a time.  Multi-tasking
is second nature to Amiga user's.  I believe a lot of users don't even
realize this until they go to another machine that doesn't multitask, and 
things start to get frustrating.  It's more than just running CPU intensive
programs.  It really is second nature...

p.s.  Let's not start a war, there are many more Amiga owner's better 
      equipped to fight it than myself...:-)

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