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From: bj@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Mac vs. Amiga (vs. ST)
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Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 00:26:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  2 00:26:38 1987
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Multi-tasking is a super important part of the Amiga, if you care to take
it as an advantage. You can have a single program commanding any number
of processes and tasks to create the user inferface and magic of the program.
If you want to add in sound to a program it becomes a seperate application,
seperate to code and debug and use, but can coexists with the main program.
If you care to you can really do a lot of stuff with the different chips 
and capabilities of the Amiga without slowing the main body of your program,
just have different processes and/or tasks that interact using messages
or signals. 

I come from the big computers to the Amiga, because there is SOOOOO much
potential for great programs. It reguires that the developer think about
different interactions between processes, but in the long run it is an
advantage that can really make the Amiga a bigger success than anything
else out there --- assuming that people here about the Amiga in a positive
light from those that write about computers. Thank you Jerry about the
Commodore blurb in InfoWorld, I also think that the "unshown machine(s)"
are wonderful, if they get them all working and to the people and get the
trade presses to like Commodore again. Lots to do, many hills ahead.

-Jim Becker
Terrapin Software