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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
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Date: 15 Dec 90 19:46:09 GMT
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Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
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	I don't know about all this banter on multi-tasking. Almost
every IBM person I have shown my Amiga to and have shown how well it
multitasks has admitted they would love to have the same abilities on
their machines. Even for something as mundane as Virus Checking, being
able to have VirusX run all the time in the background was something a
lot of them thought was VERY VERY nice. Those that weren't immediately
convinced to buy an Amiga have tried using Windows et al on their
machines in order to have thier own version of multitasking. Few have
ever looked at me and said: "Eh, I don't need it." 
	I, personally, multitask all the time. It never really occurs
to me until I sit down at someone's IBM PC or the MS-DOS clone at work
and suddenly realize I don't HAVE a spare screen I can jump to to
format a disk when I forgot to do so before starting the terminal
program. Or whatever it is I am trying to do. I usually sit there
grumbling at the machine. Grrrr. Perhaps everyone doesn't need it, but
I do....

					-Moriland



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