Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) Subject: Re: Mac jokes.. Message-ID: <1991May17.205759.20999@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics References: Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 20:57:59 GMT In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >Seems she's been running preemptive multitasking with a dynamic >priority system since before the first Amiga was powered on (I OS-9 on the Color Computer is way cool, the problems I had were: 1. It wasn't the native OS, so there was less OS9 software than ShackDos software (of which there was little). 2. ShackDos software wouldn't run under OS9. Grr. On the other hand, I learned a lot about multitasking on that system... -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate(UNIX | Amiga);