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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TYpeahead implementations (Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...))
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.185817.17991@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 18:58:17 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <10640.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>>     One nice thing [about MS-DOS] is
>>     that one can type ahead while an application is loading (due to
>>     good olde single-tasking), and have the keystrokes go to that
>>     application.

>Nothing to do with single-tasking. You can do the same thing on any system,
>including the Amiga, when the program doesn't explicitly flush typeahead.

Except that on the amiga, most application expect you to type into
their window, which usually doesn't exist until the app is already loaded.