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From: andrewjp@uoregon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <324@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 02:25:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 02:25:52 1987
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Keywords: amiga, atari st, multitask
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I apologize in advance for not letting this subject die gracefully,
but I get a bit tired of hearing things like:

In article <1974@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
>	Dave's one ironclad point.  The Amiga's multitasking *is*
>great.  However, I look upon this as a difference in the machine's
>characters, not an issue for mudslinging.  

It may surprise many people to learn this, but the ST operating system
handles a sort of multitasking very well.  It has to be written into
the software, but I personally prefer it that way (I am saddened every
time I see how slow this VAX is even when I'm the only user logged on,
thanks to the multitasking ovrhead).  One of my roommates is a
developer for the ST and has nearly completed a whole line of desk
acceessories that multitask beautifully.  As I understand it, the same
thing is possible with TOS applications, though a bit trickier.

So while I admit that, for most consumers' purposes, there are not
multitasking applications available for the ST, I stolidly assert that
the machine does support it very nicely, so a programmer/developer who
wants multitasking capability shouldn't look elsewhere so quickly.

>	I imagine everyone is sick of this debate, so why doesn't
>someone direct followups to the place it all started (now that I've
>got my two bits in)?
>

Ditto.

Cygnus.

Eric Swanson
c/o andrewjp@drizzle.uucp
P.O. Box 30098
Eugene, OR 97403
(503) 484-2790 or
(503) 484-4184