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From: iain@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Iain Fogg)
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
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Date: 29 Jun 90 00:51:08 GMT
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bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:

>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've got to take exception to this. Even though I use Unix at work, I
  also use Dos at home, and I happen to like it (no flames please :-) In
  my original posting I was trying to ascertain the technical merits, or
  otherwise, of Windows 3.0. I was not attempting to belittle the
  product. Clearly, my understanding of the extent of multitasking
  available under Windows was wide of the mark, but I don't think it was
  necessary (or warranted) for all you darn Dos people to pigeonhole all
  us darn Unix people. As it happens not all Unix people are as one-eyed
  as you seem to beleive.

>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.

  Fair enough, but I'm not exactly sure what mean by the _right_ way.
  How many different sorts of multi-tasking are there?

  Iain.