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From: lindwall@fossey.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall)
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Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
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Date: 10 Jan 91 01:49:46 GMT
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In article <127515@linus.mitre.org> sokay@kurgen.mitre.org (Steve Okay W43) writes:
>The Amiga can accomodate a task list of up to 20 processes. 

I don't beleive this is actually true.  I think there may be an
arbitrary limit (20 sounds like a familiar number) of CLI/Shells that
you can open, but I beleive that the number of tasks that Exec can
handle is limited only by RAM.  The static limit on CLIs is arbitrary;
i.e. I have seen a PD hack which would remove this limit.  In addition,
I was under the impression that this limit was removed in 2.0 (but I
can't personally prove it).

Other then this mistatement, your article was very informative and
interesting.  Nice to hear about people with some powerful Amiga
environments!  

Could Windows 3.0 on a 386 handle all these processes I wonder?
(This is not flame-bait, I truly don't know).


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John Lindwall			lindwall@ucsd.edu
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