Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!s320 From: s320@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Message-ID: <626@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 8 Apr 90 20:29:13 GMT References: <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 32 In article <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) writes: >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. Ah, guy, I just (yesterday) downloaded a BUNCH of stuff with my comm program in the background in multifinder....and Bard's Tale and some other games (Pipe Dream, also, more that I don't remember) play sound FLAWLESSLY when they are in the background. So MultiFinder obviously cuts it... Please, folks, don't make pronouncements like this unless you know what you are talking about...notice I didn't say anything about the Amiga, as I am NOT very familiar with it, having used one only a few times... -- Ted Woodward (s320@cs.utexas.edu) Someone shot the food...