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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
Message-ID: <17806@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 21 Dec 90 08:34:40 GMT
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> 
> My other argument in favour of multitasking is that it simply isn't intuitive
> for a program to stop when its window isn't active or its screen is not visible.
> Granted, the word `intuitive' isn't quantifiable, but I suspect that those
> who only do one thing at a time on a computer do so only because they learned
> this behaviour when they learned about computers (mental set for using a
> computer).


Not at all. Ask Schrodinger. When it can't be seen, an program ceases to be
in a defined state, but becomes a wave form with a probability with a finite 
probability of being crashed when the cube is NeXT opened. However until
it is next obsevered it is neither crashed nor running properly. That is
how reality is, so it is how multitasking should be to be intuitive.

Regards Alan