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From: ugmiker@sunybcs.uucp (Michael Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <6537@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 17:03:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 17:03:04 1987
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Keywords: BUY IT...BUY IT...BUY IT.. you wont be sorry...
Summary: MORE THAN ENOUGH !!!!

In article <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes:
>Oh boy, I think I'm going to get flamed for this one.
>
>I am a non-Amiga user.  I just found out that the Amiga is multi-tasking,
>something for which I would kill.  However, if my sources are correct, the
>A2000 only comes with 1 meg standard.  My question is: is this enough to
>really use multi-tasking to its full extent?  Multifinder for the Mac is
>pseudo-multitasking, but it appearantly doesn't do much good until you're
>playing with at least 2 meg of memory and a hard disk.
>
>	Johan Larson

	Take it from a BIASED (and proud of it :-) Amiga A100 owner.  When I
use my Amiga, I am always doing about three-five different things, downloading
files, playing othello, running the shell, running facc, running mouseclock, and
I almost Never have memory problems....What is the bid deal about that you ask,
well, I only have 512k, and one drive!!!  And I can do allll the above. I can't
live without multitasking, My freinds call me a "multitasking maniac" I just
can't do one thing at a time, much to my atari-owning housemate's unhappiness.

	One quick example of why not....Once while downloading a HUGE (170k)file
I ran out of disk space, OH DAMN !!!! what am I gonna do now, I have 150k of 
this file here, and no more room on the disk....hmmmmm... BUT wait !!! I OWN A
Commodore Amiga, I can do a jillion (o.k. exaggeration :-) ) things at once...
Aren't I running the shell somewhere in all those windows...? ahhh yes, here it
is, I guess I could just get a directory of this disk, hmmmm there is a file I
don't need... blow that away.... go back to the vt100 program, and look,it is 
finishing the file transfer, like nothing ever happend !!!! BOY WHAT A MACHINE!!

..... TRY that on a monochrome mac !!! (of course from an amiga commercial ..)

							mike


p.s. Also I think a 2 Meg. expansion for the 2000 is only about $450, and my
     local dealer had a bunch of them in stock..
Michael (what am I wood??) Reilly  
University of Buffalo Computer Science       
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