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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Keywords: Macs, uh-oh
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Date: 4 May 90 18:17:25 GMT
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johno@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Orr - CATS) writes:

>the Amiga's OS takes care of multitasking, so, in
>general, applications have little 'say' in whether or not they get
>swapped out or not 

Please, folks.  "Swapped out" has a pretty specific general use, referring
to moving hunks of memory to a hard drive when you're working with a virtual
memory system - it doesn't generally mean what happens when you switch
between tasks which are already memory resident.  That, not surprisingly,
is usually referred to as "task switching".

Just call me a computer language purist :-)
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us