Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!stevep From: stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun26.194233.28583@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 19:42:33 GMT References: <13420@uwm.edu> <1991Jun25.221925.11815@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 25 In article <1991Jun25.221925.11815@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > Multifinder is very distantly similar. On an Amiga, you can have as many >screens as chip RAM can hold, and switching between them is very rapid any >uses essentially zero processor time. On a MAC, it is fun to run a program >like StuffIt and then switch to the Finder. It can take the OS as much as >half a minute to redraw the desktop, even on a MAC SE/30. > > The MAC does NOT have multiple screen capability. It has software >almost-virtual-multiple-screens-loaded-from-disk. When you switch to a >different application's "screen" under multifinder, the current screen >is saved to disk and the screen of the application is loaded from disk. >The MAC has only one area of memory reserved for the display, and this >area is wiped and redrawn when you switch applications under multifinder. What the hell are you talking about? If you know as little about the Amiga as you do about the Mac then I'd better keep a salt lick handy when reading your posts. Can you recommend a feed store/Amiga dealer in the Seattle area? > / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- INTEL 80x86: Just say NOP -- Internet: stevep@wrq.com -- AOL: Spoole -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------