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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: difference between 7.0 and amiga multitasking
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.011144.9757@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 01:11:44 GMT
References: <330863744000293E@FANDM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <330863744000293E@FANDM> NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.BITNET writes:
> In a way you are right, if the user wants to switch from one program to
> another, the mac is only seconds slower than the amiga. (because at
> activation time, all the windows are brought to front and are refreshed.)

"only" seconds slower doesn't sound too bad. But that's the difference between
"faster than you can detect" (i.e., a few milliseconds) and "slow enough to
drive you crazy".

I do work on Macs as infrequently as possible, because this sort of thing
is always getting on my nerves. It's as bad as running 30 users on a VAX
780.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"