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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <7671@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 16:03:21 GMT
References: <4085@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1018@ashton.UUCP> <4100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1990Jun28.050337.7529@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Jun28.050337.7529@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes:

>Try understanding a little more.  Windows 3.0 on a 386 machine gives true
>multitasking.  You Unix people don't believe anything is running in the 
>background unless you can type the darn '&'.

I once had a unix fanatic (NOT a guru) try to explain why my msdos PC
could not really multitask.  However, he was having a hard time starting
a Unix background process ('&') that did something meaningful and obvious. In
the meantime I had started about 3 cube demos running under windows and
asked him "you mean something like this?"  He stood there dumbfounded as I
started a few more.  This wasn't quite fair, but the notion that a PC can't
multitask (the *right* way) without Unix should have died years ago.

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