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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
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Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 19:51:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 19:51:45 1987
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Compiling and reading mail at the same time are not good examples
for why one wants multitasking.  On the Mac, I use LightspeedC.
The compiler and linker are so fast, I don't have time to read
my mail! :-)

A better example would be doing some slow operation on a large
database while reading mail.
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Tim Smith       USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim   Compuserve: 72257,3706
                Delphi or GEnie: mnementh