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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TYpeahead implementations (Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...))
Message-ID: <7643@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 12:56:18 GMT
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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.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.