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From: mgenius@wam.umd.edu (Sandro M. Fouche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
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Date: 8 Apr 90 23:15:42 GMT
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In article <212@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) writes:
>In article <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) writes:
>]In article <MWM.90Apr7000929@raven.pa.dec.com> 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.
>]
>]>	<mike
>]
>]David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
>]"Think you can, think you can't -- either way it's true."  Henry Ford
>
>I'm supprised that's all you do while downloading.  When I'm downloading
>a group of files (usally from a Fred Fish Disk), I start the download, then
>click to my shell window, format a new disk, and begin unarchiving the
>files as they arrive (all while the download is taking place).  Also, I often
>look at the contents of text files while waiting for the next file to be
>completed.
>
>I'll never be happy on a system without true multitasking and a ramdisk or
>very fast hard drive again.  Fortunately, this turns out not to be a
>problem ;)
>
>Dave Schaumann
>dave@cs.arizona.edu

	The fact is that I can do all of these things while downloading
on the mac.  I'd rather be making out with my girlfriend, then be so tied
to my computer that I'm formatting disks and playing video games while 
downloading.

					-Sandro Fouche'