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From: psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: amiga emulators
Summary: Amiga emulator
Message-ID: <1260@grit.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 15:13:14 GMT
References: <8219@crash.cts.com> <MbwCiO_00Uh7M2LBta@andrew.cmu.edu> <3303@hexagon.se>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <3303@hexagon.se>, daniel@hexagon.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:

> Probably they gave up and bought an Amiga.  Seems the easiest thing to
> do, and you can use both computers at the same time.  (That's *real*
> multitasking, folks!)
> 
Strictly speaking that would be multi-processing, not multi-tasking...minor
difference.  Multitasking is where the CPU must divided its time between the
programs running (ala Amiga), while multiprocessing allows programs to run at
the same time (ala Atari Transputer, or similar device).


                                Troy Carpenter
                        Department of Computer Sciences
                        THE University of Texas, Austin
                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu

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