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From: gjc@lsw.UUCP (Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....)
Summary: Yes it's true only 20!!
Message-ID: <178@lsw.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 91 08:25:12 GMT
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> I don't beleive this is actually true.  I think there may be an
> arbitrary limit (20 sounds like a familiar number) of CLI/Shells that
> you can open, but I beleive that the number of tasks that Exec can
> handle is limited only by RAM.  The static limit on CLIs is arbitrary;

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!!

I *WOULD* like to know the name of the PD hack to remove this limitation.

Gregory Casamento (The Borgster!)