Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <42624@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 16 Jan 91 17:20:20 GMT References: <17210@cbmvax.commodore. <11721@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jan16.061816.15522@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 14 In article <1991Jan16.061816.15522@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >Thos f us tht nvr wnt to the evln woodhead schl of spd rding might need >5 seconds to read a menu! It might take even longer to figure out what the >menu items mean. Well, if you don't know what the menu items mean, either RTFM, or invoke the menu item and examine the dialog it brings up or the effect it produces. (Are you trying to do serious work without even knowing how to use the program?) You're telling me that THEORETICALLY the design is a problem. I reply that IN PRACTICE, I don't encounter the problem. I've been downloading more than usual and playing games in the foreground just to test some of these objections. I have yet to lose a file and we're talking hourlong downloads.