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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Comparing computers
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 19:40:09 EDT
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>>I get tangible benefits from multitasking *now*. I don't have a lot of
>>use for what you claim are the tangible benefits of the Mac.
>
>Most of the time, I get more tangible benefits from the thought that
>went into the design of the Mac (and its software) than I do out of
>the multitasking that's present on every other machine I use.  To pick
>an example out of a hat, my C compiler is so fast that I don't have
>time to fire up a terminal emulator and download a file while it's
>compiling.

	This is a very minor point relative to multitasking in general and
a bad example to boot (as anybody who has ever had experience on a multi-
tasking machine such as a Sun can tell you).  I think what you meant to
say was something along the lines "The Mac was designed well enough that
Multitasking doesn't seem to be as much of a benefit as one might think"...
at least, that's how I read it.

	I, for one, find some sort of multitasking a neccesity.  The Mac has
this in its DA's and other clever interrupt driven tricks.  Even when I still
had my old Commodore Pet (can you say 7167 bytes free?) I wrote programs which
semi-multitasked so I could debug them while they were running. 

				-Matt