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From: dege@cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
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Date: 13 Jan 91 15:57:01 GMT
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In <178@lsw.UUCP> gjc@lsw.UUCP (Greg) writes:

>I have an Amiga 2500 with 3 megs of RAM and yet I can only have about
>20 processes running.  I have experimented with this and found it to be
>be very true...  If you open a CLI and type "run clock" 19 times and then 
>open another CLI and try to "run" anything then you can't do it! You can't
>even run anything from WB!!

   Anything you start with a "run" command ends up in its own CLI.  That is
why you are hitting the 20 CLI limit.  If you will notice, run prints the
CLI number when it starts.  The 20 CLI limit does not apply to processes
not started from the CLI.

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