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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
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Date: 17 Dec 90 04:21:02 GMT
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In article <1990Dec15.031131.17141@isc.rit.edu> pwg8482@isc.rit.edu (P.W. Gousios ) writes:
>    How about play a game while doing a hard disk backup to tape?
>    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.

The examples are rather contrived... remember I'm talking about an "average"
user, one who can barely hook up a printer.

>    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.)

Oh, I agree, I love being able to format a disk and do something else.  But
it ain't going to be enough to get people to leave their Macs....

People seem to be thinking I'm saying "multitasking is useless".  Not at
all.  Just that most people can function without it.  Ignorance is bliss.
Sure, that's a cynical attitude, but it's not the best computer that wins,
it's the computer with the best marketing....

You know, computers are just like ST:TNG....

	Macintosh == Picard (lots of flair, woos the women, surrenders easily)
    IBM PC == IBM PC (nobody likes him, but he still sticks around and
                     shows up everywhere)
    NeXT == Data (smart piece of machinery, wants everyone to like him)
    Amiga == Wesley (brilliant kid, but whines too much)
    Unix (BSD) == Geordi (just hacks at the source and it works)
    Unix (SVR4) == Worf (quick to take offense, very agressive)

Obviously time to go to bed...

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Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
           Quoth the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening