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From: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Keywords: Macs, uh-oh
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Date: 3 May 90 16:43:47 GMT
References: <20499@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <8930@hubcap.clemson.edu> <10143@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <6845@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story )
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In article <6845@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) 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?
>
>>>Chris Everhart
>>>chrise@hubcap.clemson.edu
>
>WAIT!!! Don't kill him!!!  He only said it out of stupidity - he's a 
>  MAC owner!!!
Well, I'm not completely sure, but I think multifinder does multitask
with the right programs.  You see, under Amiga's OS the task switching
is basically transparent.. the kernal takes care of switching processes
and giving each program its proper timeshare.  Under Multifinder, each
program is responsible for allowing other programs to run... so
consequently, if a program wasn't originally written for multifiner,
multifinder will only switch programs.. not giving the non-active ANY
time.  if it was, the program should have been programmed to give any
non-active programs some sort of time to do something.
NOTE: I could be totally wrong! I haven't really even used Multifinder
that much! This is gathered from what I've read on the net ..
                            
                             ----Ezra
Ezra Story : "I HATE .sig files!"
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