Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!navas From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Message-ID: <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 7 Apr 90 21:20:27 GMT References: Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >Much as some Amiga users may hate to admit it, the difference between >preemptive and non-preemptive multitasking isn't that great from the >users point of view. Well, I take exception to that on a theoretical level at any rate. Now, it's true that WP programs may not need preemptive multitasking, but then WP programs don't need multitasking. Now, when do *I* use multitasking? WHen I'm doing downloading and/or playing music [on my computer, silly] while programming, etc. Under these circumstances, MultiFinder doesn't cut it for the obvious reasons. I think that it's not so much that multitasking programs don't need preemptive multitasking, but that the current manner of programming doesn't teach you to think in concurrent ways, and so preemptiveness isn't so obvious. >