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From: wilkes@beatnix.UUCP (John Wilkes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 15:59:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 15:59:58 1987
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In article <211@dana.UUCP> rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
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>Though I am an Amiga-fan, I just had to say that if one program is
>written incorrectly, it can, indeed, hog the system.  (By the way,

The Amiga does not have exclusive rights to this ``feature''.  I remember
venerable Tops-20 on a PDP-10 mainframe could drop to its knees because
of one poorly behaved user program.  I'm certain that other large timesharing
systems can suffer similarly.  Of course, the ELXSI doesn't have this
problem....  infinite number of ;-)
(That's a joke, son, a joke.)
(But this isn't rec.humor.)
(Sometimes I can't tell the difference.)

>
>Rob Peck                         ...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap

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