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From: ccasttd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Thomas Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 20:03:23 EST
Article-I.D.: pyr.4459
Posted: Sun Nov 15 20:03:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Nov-87 00:54:34 EST
References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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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

Where have you been, man...

The PDP-11/23 can run Unix in 128K, not just muti-tasking but multi-
user.  The DEC LSI-11 can do primative multitasking under RT-11 or
Xinu in 64K!!!

The list can go on for days...

The thing more memory gives you is speed.  64K multitasking is pretty slow...

Memory should not be you concern...the fact that the Amiga has no MMU is 
the real stumbling block to efficient multitasking...