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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at
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Date: 15 Jan 91 00:58:15 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <MWM.91Jan14145940@raven.relay.pa.dec.com>, mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com
                                    (Mike (My Watch Has Windows)) writes:
|In article <JIMB.91Jan14143121@pogo.ai.mit.edu> jimb@pogo.ai.mit.edu
|                                                    (Jim Blandy) writes:
|   This discussion makes True Multitasking sound like the True Grail, or
|   True Love.  There's an implicit value judgement there, and nobody
|   wants their machine to lack True Multitasking, even if they can't
|   agree on what that actually means.  Let's abandon the term, and talk
|   about what actually happens.
|
| Yes, yes, yes! That's been my point all along. It's judgemental, and
| there is a perfectly good term to use for it's normal use here. Also,
| nobody has come up with a textbook definition, which means that
| misinterpretations due to people using different definitions is
| possible.

    Quite so. And even more unsettling for rabid amigoids, I have seen
 proselytizing OS/2 types claim that the Amiga doesn't have "real
 multitasking" because it doesn't have memory protection. If one errant
 program can take down the system, it ain't multitasking, so they say.
    -harvey

    "The earth is a graveyard of angry young men." -some old greek

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