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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hidden Multitasking?
Message-ID: <1274@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 13:59:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 13:59:30 1987
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john13@garfield.UUCP wrote in article <3637@garfield.UUCP>:
>I'm wondering how many other programs that seem to take over the Amiga
>actually do

I don't think any package really "takes over" the machine.  If you have
Kickstart, you have DOS too.  You might not have Workbench but as long
as you throw POPCLI (or something similar) on the system first, you're
almost assured access to the CLI, thus the rest of the system.

While it's true that some disks have to be inserted at boot (instead of
the WB disk) and you can't write on them (to change the startup-sequence)
there are ways to defeat this.

The only thing I can think of that would effectively defeat you from
using the rest of the system is if the package took control of the
input.device and ate all keystrokes and mouse moves.  You'd be at the
mercy of the program in that case.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}