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From: pwg8482@isc.rit.edu (P.W. Gousios )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
Summary: Format, file transfer, tape backup
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.031131.17141@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 03:11:31 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.155848.8152@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Dec13.155848.8152@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) writes:
>Don't flame me for this, but.... most people DON'T need multitasking on
>their computer.

    Most people don't need a computer... but that is another topic.

>  (Print spooling is about the only thing I can think of
>that the average user will want to do.)

    How about play a game while doing a hard disk backup to tape?
       (don't tell me that all the good games take over the machine)

    How about using both floppys to format a box of disk?
    While printing, and playing background music, and downloading, all of 
    the comp.sys.amiga articles.

    Perhaps you can spend a bit more time thinking about it.
    The disk formatting is enough to impress a lot of people.
    (I sure hate waiting when formatting.)

Pete G.