Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!wam!ddev
From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Message-ID: <1990May3.042500.18758@wam.umd.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 04:25:00 GMT
References: <20499@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <8930@hubcap.clemson.edu> <10143@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <43785@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <7416@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting)
Reply-To: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Lines: 26

In article <7416@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>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?
>> 
>
>Youre right, Andy.
>This drongo doesn't know the difference between multitasking and parallel
>processing.

Tell us, just what is the difference? In a strict sense, you can't have
(true) multitasking without multiple processors...anything else is just
program swapping; multitasking is implicitly denied in a single processor
system. And just what is a drongo, anyway?


--
Don DeVoe       "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders 
ddev@epsl.umd.edu  what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -TMBG