Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!pilchuck!amc-gw!sumax!polari!davego From: davego@polari.UUCP (dave oliphant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking at home is great!! (Was Reality check: ....) Message-ID: <3120@polari.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 15:42:57 GMT References: <26060@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <696@cbmger.UUCP> Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 Lines: 29 In article mwm@fenris.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: > >It's use implies that non-preemptive multitasking is somehow "fake" or >"false". This is no more true than the claim that the Isetta isn't a >car because it uses a motercycle engine. In article <1990Dec13.155848.8152@maytag.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec22.082240.2443@ news.iastate.edu> <26060@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittle GERMANY) writes: >>Sorry to waste bandwidth, but I have to express my deep astonishment >>that someone in US (or am I wrong here?) knows what an Isetta is!!! >>I simply can't believe it. Aw come on, Dr. Kittle, give us a break. There have been hundreds of thousands of americans (if not millions) stationed in Germany and Europe over the past several years, myself included. I lived for three years in Bayreuth, an incredible city. That's where I discovered the joys of Wagner, although I was never quite able to get in to experience the FestSpiel. I have to admit, though, I don't remember hearing of an Isetta. A Citroen Duck maybe, but not an Isetta. :-}! (make that a double) :-) (-: !! Widersehen. -- davego@polari.UUCP Dave G. Oliphant "Just where is dave going, anyway?" (206) 325-5669 2d ACR - Always Ready! (I'm with you guys) send the scouts out