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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
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Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
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Date: 3 May 90 08:52:08 GMT
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In article <43785@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, sl195091@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman) writes:
> In article <10143@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs163wed@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (see far) writes:
> 
>>
>>ISn't the AMiga's multi-tasking program swapping?   Unless you have
>>several amigas at once, you can never run programs simultaneously.
>>Amiga's multitasking only tricks you into thinking it is running
>>programs "simultaneously". 
>>
>>After all, you get only one 68000 in an amiga, don't you?
> 
> 
>>--
>>What is the Final Outcome for China's current 	situation? 
>>In China, 1992, (Lee Huan of) Taiwan will liberate Mainland!
> 
> Now, I'm no expert on the hardware of the Amiga, but I DO know that I can
> be downloading a program AND writing a paper at the same time so I can
> run 2 programs simultaneously.  Maybe is is time-sharing like UNIX  but I 
> don't really care.  As far as I'm concerned (and care...) the Amiga DOES
> multitask.
>

Youre right, Andy.
This drongo doesn't know the difference between multitasking and parallel
processing.
Regards Alan