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From: jlh@noether.math.purdue.edu (Jeffrey Hensley)
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Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 13 Jan 91 06:35:20 GMT
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In article <42459@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
[Refering to formatting disks while other tasks are still running]

>
>Yeah, that is a substantial criticism.  I mean really, how OFTEN do you need to
>format a disk?  It is nifty to be able to do so and run another task, but it
>just as easy to format a bunch at once and then go back to work.
>

	It is interesting to note what is and is not important to different
people!!  What is not easy is to discover that you don't have a blank
formatted disk handy but that you desparately need to save a couple of
hours of work....  

	This topic often comes up when talking about multitasking and
the differences between Amigas and Macs.  The point is that an operating
system that allows you to do these somewhat small and mundane tasks
while still running other tasks is certainly preferable!  How many system
administrators would tolerate an  implementation of Unix which required
the system to be halted to add a new user?

--Jeff Hensley