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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking revisited
Message-ID: <377@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 89 09:35:02 GMT
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In article <8908041840.AA00412@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
> Some netters replied to my first sermon on multitasking with the classical
> response about doing something else while downloading files. Hell, you do
> not need a multitasking environment to do this, just get a hold of one of
> the telecom packages on the market that allows backgound file transfers.
> 
> You don't need a full blown multitasking environment for something as simple
> as file transfers in the background!

Well I'm sure glad I don't have to bias my purchase decisions about terminal
programs, word processors, databases, and every other piece of productivity
software based on whether or not it will do it's thing in the background.
Because on the Amiga, you know it will. Not to mention countless other useful
applications of multitasking.
-- 
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