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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A little detective work...
Message-ID: <4431@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 17:08:21 GMT
References: <890824.01342113.020170@SFA.CP6>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <890824.01342113.020170@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
)Hello everyone,
)
)    I thought that I would share an experience which I think would be of
)benefit.  Tonight, for several hours, I helped to troubleshoot [ ... ]

)    Let's see, and this net has been talking about MMU's lately, right?

)    Ok, here we go.  Isolate each accessory. 

Was this by booting again and again?

)    Finally, the matter was solved.  I decided that we would pull all the
)accessories and install them in from scratch, thus changing their order of
)execution (??????????).  Well, guess what?  That solved his problem. 

)If any problems occur, please check the rest
)of the system out.  As more and more /AUTO/ aids are made available and
)with the frequency of new free/share/ware accessories and with the hit
)and miss of execution orders, it amazes me how all of this seems to
)work.  Moral of the story?  Don't condemn before you do some detective
)work.

Wasn't I just reading about how multi-tasking is unecessary, and even if
it were necessary, it isn't useful unless there is an MMU?

I don't think the problem here was lack of MMU, but the presence (and proliferation)
of "desk accessory" psuedo-tasks.

Multitasking is perhaps a little nicer than some might think.

I assume that the ST desk accessory world is still much better off than
the Mac's, at least.

	jimm

    "Always run Sidekick as the last TSR."
			- my favorite multitasking quote

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