Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!hercules!gilham From: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 90 18:51:03 GMT References: <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <11052@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Sender: usenet@csl.sri.com Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu's message of 9 Apr 90 01:55:12 GMT Michael Niehaus writes: ============================== Unix has the ability to do this partially (with forks), but the only operating system that I have seen that does this well is OS/2. (PageMaker is the first application that I have seen that really takes advantage of this by reformatting in the background while the user continues to edit.) ============================== I don't know anything about OS/2 (half an operating system???) but I remember reading a year or so back that a well known word processing group bought amigas to help program the OS/2 version of their word processor, because they found the amiga implementation of tasks etc. easier to use. My own experience with the amiga is that it taught me to think in terms of concurrent processes. It is very easy to use them on the amiga. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com If it can be shown that the machinery has come into the world as a curse, there is no reason whatever for for our respecting it because it is a marvellous and practical and productive curse. -G. K. Chesterton