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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga basher
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 15:22:51 GMT

In article <56@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>"from 720 kb PC disks to my harddisk, or) or raytrace. Playing games while
>the computer is doing some of this, is not impossible(and would not be either
>on PC's / Macs, if they could multitask, and will be possible, as soon as
>they go multitasking)."
>
>Are you saying the Macintosh cannot multitask? Wake up and smell the toast
>burning, man!
>
	Macintosh multitasking requires the programmer to write
their code in a very specific way. Additionally, the task you are
interacting with gets the vast majority of time, even if it
doesn't need it. Which needs the time more: Tetris or the compile
job that is running in the background?

>"I'd like to have a NeXT too, but doesn't they cost money? And where are
>the colours. They are coming, aren't they?(This is a question, not a flame.
>I wouldn't know it even if they had had colours for years)"
>
>NeXT has had KILLER color for a while now (full 32-bit, the last byte used
>for transparency/reflectance).


	They didn't ship their 12-bit NeXT until about 3 months
ago. Since when did they start shipping the NextDimension board?
I don't know what your definition of "a while now" is, but I
guess it isn't mine.
	Get a ...
	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin