Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <4175@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 28 Feb 91 22:58:33 GMT References: <12608@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb26.094426.15315@silvlis.com> <4160@gmdzi.gmd.de> <12814@helios.TAMU.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 26 n298ad@tamuts.tamu.edu (John Jordan) writes: >If you want to talk multitasking, look at the Amiga. True. Or look at OS/2. >It has it built in and it runs in 512k. So what. I have a multitasker written in Z80 assembler which does preemptive multitasking within 4 K (or was it 2K? I forgot, it's long ago). >Keymaps for other countries are not a problem either. Internationalization is much more than changing the keymap. >Besides, on messy dos Windows is a CPU hog. Not at all. >and on the MAC multitasking is a memory hog. No comment ;-) Wolfgang Strobl #include