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From: Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
Message-ID: <37101@cup.portal.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 02:47:43 GMT
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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 *DO* need multitasking!!!  They just don't know that they need
it because they've never experienced it.  

Do you realize what an icredibly huge pain in the arse it is to have
to exit out of a word processor just to check whats on a disk?  
Exiting program A because the user needs to a utility in program B happens
all the time in the MSDOS world.  This is why MACs MultiFinder is so
popular.

True multitasking is even better, since my application can number crunch,
paginate, spell check, update databases, etc. without making me wait.

I think anyone who works with a multitasking machine for any significant
length of time will never want to go back.  (Having to exit an MSDOS
program never bothered me 'til I got my Amiga)

Lee		Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com