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From: sah@ukc.ac.uk (S.A.Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: A.M.O.S.
Message-ID: <6929@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Feb 91 10:48:29 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.141013.9228@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1991Feb20.161159.10235@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: sah@ukc.ac.uk (S.A.Hill)
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In article <1991Feb20.161159.10235@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> clcp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk ((Stewart C. Russell)) writes:
>In article <1991Feb18.141013.9228@cl.cam.ac.uk>, phg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Philip Gladwin) writes:
>> Has anyone any experience of this thing? Is it a toy, or 
>AMOS disables most multitasking, and runs outwith Intuition.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This isn't true. AMOS multitasks.  The first version had a busy wait that
clobbered all other tasks, but this has been fixed.

It is true that AMOS doesn't use intuition.

Steve Hill, UKC.