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From: maniac@magic.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
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Date: 23 Dec 90 19:01:14 GMT
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	I think the usefullnes of multitasking is something you have
to get used to before you can appreciate.  My best friend is a Mac
fanatic.  One night he came over to visit while I was downloading a
rather large file off of the school mainframe.  Well, part of the way
through the download, my hard disk became full.  Rather than loose an
hour of time spend downloading, I called up WorkBench, copied some
files from the hard disk to a RAM disk, then deleted them.  When I
dropped back to the terminal program, and told it to try the hard disk
again.  Since there was room now, the download finished quite well.
Brent was impressed.
	One of the things multitasking allows is to be able to deal
with the unexpected.
	BTW, My friend has since upgraded his computer so that it has
enough ram to use multifinder effectively, and he still thinks that
the Amiga's multitasking is smoother.
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu