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From: carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Stoopid Amiga radio commercial
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Date: 17 Nov 89 15:49:36 GMT
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I heard an ad on the radio that really ticked my cookies.  It was for some
Computer store chain (Software Etc., or ComputerLand, or something like that).
The quote that got me was:

 "The Amiga multitasks.  You can do up to four things at once on it."

Four?  4?  Oh, right.  I never knew there was a limit of four.  I quess I'll
have to shut down my terminal package downloading a batch of files, and stop
DigiView from smoothing an image, and stop reading my UUCP news (which was
delivered right to my machine at home.  Automatically), so I can work on the
DigiPaint III picture while Scuplt 3d is rendering a picture and I am running a
compile using Lattice 5.04, of a program that is currently running some
regression tests.

4.  Geesh.


 -Todd C.

p.s.  Saw a *funny* thing on a Mac program.  (The program was revolting.  It
had to do with a woman and a box of "toys" and some digitized sounds...).   The
program was hardly a "productivity" program.  It had this little PANIC button
on it.  The idea was to hit the button when your boss walked in the room, and
it would immediately pop a screen that looked like a spreadsheet.  

  tee-hee.  With an Amiga you *can* run the spreadsheet.  And go play with the
toys while it crunches on some odious task.  You don't need silly kludge
buttons.  (Well, okay, there is that nasty bunch of games that don't multitask.
But we won't talk about that.)