Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!samsung!know!login From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Real Multitasking? :) Message-ID: <21294@know.pws.bull.com> Date: 19 Feb 91 17:53:34 GMT Sender: login@pws.bull.com Lines: 39 Approved: warren@pws.bull.com With all this talk about "True multitasking", I thought I'd relay certain instances in which I use the multitasking ability of my Amiga. This is mainly in response to a posted Atari user's claim that true multitasking is for the most part useless. Several times a week I will use a terminal program to download a large file (or capture vast amounts of text) while I: A- Decompress a large archive which I just received. Only, while this is being done I will still have nothing to "do"..so I play Empire (A very good war simulation board game.) while all this is being done. B- Decompress a large archive which I just received. Only, while this is being done I will use my wordprocessor to write a message or reply to one. C- Decompress a large archive which I just received. Only, while this is being done I will format new disks for the downloading of more software. D- Decompress a large archive which I just received. Only, while this is being done I will try out any new software I have already decompressed. As you can see, this is only one small aspect of what I do while I'm multi- tasking. Several other situations bring on unique cominations as well. My machine consists of a "stock" 500 with 1 MEG RAM, two drives, printer, and 2400 baud modem with monitor. A few tech notes: I still get 233CPS using Zmodem and almost no slowdown in software activity. I look forward to any messages showing how other Amiga users use their machine in multitasking combinations. Tom -- Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales \XX/ tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. Only the Amiga! DEVO Anyone?