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From: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Message-ID: <6478@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 7 May 90 16:37:56 GMT
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Reply-To: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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)[ lots of stuff deleted ]
)  So?  What's one CPU got to do with it? SUN and Apollo workstations also
)only have one cpu and nobody questions them. The point is, if you run a
)program in multifinder and send it to the background to do it's transforms
)or whatever-Mac-geeks-do, and then enter your word processor and do some
)foreground work there, when you finish your WP job and re-enter the other
)program you'll likely find the calculations right where you left them
)the last time (ok, maybe an addition or a substraction more);

"... you'll likely find the calculations..."???  Sounds like you are baseing
your post without any firsthand knowledge.. The answer is that you are
completely wrong.

)why is this
)you might ask? Because ALL mac progs do.... (drum roll)... BUSY WAITING!!!
)Yes ladies and gentlemen, mac programs commit that capital sin in every
)multitalking world, so if your program doesn't have provisions to return
)control to the OS after a certain amount of time, you might as well run it
)alone;
)[ deleted stuff about Amiga ]

Wrong again.

)+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
)| Isn't it refreshingly similar the syntax of | My other mainframe|
)| UNIX commands and AmigaDOS stuff?  :)       | is an Amiga :)    |
)+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
)| Gustavo Cordova | Computer Systems majoring @ ITESM, Mexico     |
)+=================+ Internet: al158305 @ mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx      |
)| If at first you |           al158305 @ 131.178.1.5              |
)| don't succeed,  | BitNet: bl158305 @ tecmtyvm.bitnet            |
)| to hell with it.|         al158305%mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx@tecmtyvm |
)+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

Seriously though, can you please stop bashing other machines unless
you have some facts.  Stop makeing up things and using theory to prove
a mute point.

I am not saying that Multifinder is better that AmigaOS or visa-versa.
In fact, I dont even like MF but from a practical point of view, there
are less differences than some of you would like to admit.  Here is a real
world example.  With MF, I was able to do a ray trace, download and
word process at the same time.  Yes, the ray trace and download all
progressed fine.  As well, I am sure that the amiga can do the same.

--
What do these names have in common?
Bob, Flo, Augie, Curtis, Gordon, Rick, Rhonda, Meep, Bismark, Skip, and Harry
	...did I miss any??			steveg@umd5.umd.edu