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From: jafischer@watrose.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: multitasking...
Message-ID: <8413@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 17:24:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 17:24:51 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 04:59:53 EST
Reply-To: jafischer@watrose.UUCP (Jonathan Fischer)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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	About that message I posted awhile ago questioning multitasking's
real worth:

	Interesting... up till now, I guess I simply hadn't been exposed to
true multitasking.  CMS, TSO, and all the others I've used on various work
terms are more like single task systems with background processing.  My limited
experience gives me no knowledge of how to switch between foreground tasks on
those systems.  And up until a few kind Net-ers revealed to me the wonders of
^Z in Unix, Unix was the same thing.  (Is this ^Z thingy fairly obvious
in the Unix manuals?  I read the csh 'man' entry, and I don't remember any
reference to it.  Nor in the dozens & dozens of other manual entries I've
perused...)
	The point is, it's not just multitasking, but the ability to jump
between various tasks, that's so valuable.  I see that now.  Of course, _you_
all know that, you Amiga guys you.  Now, my original question _was_ rather
naive and simple-minded, but I was running on about 2 hours' sleep, and
besides, if it wasn't for that message, I never would have learned about this
wondrous task-switching secret of Unix (at least, Unix 4.2BSD, I'm informed).
	I wonder if Beckemeyer's MT C-Shell for the ST has this ^Z capability...

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