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From: davidli@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dave Meile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <3280@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 87 17:28:40 GMT
References: <2168@crash.cts.com> <3256@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <7413@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile)
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Summary: post insults via mail (you know, the 'r' key...)

In article <7413@sunybcs.UUCP> jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
>
>	With your mentality we would all still be using punch cards on one
>of the world's two computers.
>

Really, you could have come up with something a bit cruder to say.  And, if
you'd sent it via email, I could have deleted it without having to bother
to reply via News.

How many years have you owned a personal computer Joseph?  Were you ever
actually around when punch cards were being used?  Were you around when
all you could do with a personal computer was toggle switches on the front
panel and bring an AM radio close to the CPU to produce "music"?  Did you
ever put together one of those personal computers (you know, before Radio
Shack started mass production of the TRS-80 model I)?

Did your network news administrator ever tell you not to impugn all those
nice people who post to News?  Are YOU the network news administrator?  Does
your school sell Macintoshes and IBM computers to students and faculty?
Does it sell Amigas?  Why not, if a multi-tasking microcomputer is such
hot stuff?

Does your Amiga run HyperCard, Joseph?  Will your 68020 processor (I assume
all Amiga owners own the "latest" processor for their machines) run Lotus
1-2-3?  Is the Amiga being bought in Fortune 50 companies?  What does this
say about upper-management's desire to provide multi-tasking in the office
environment?

See what a load of embarassing questions can be asked, simply because you
chose to use News to make some rather useless comments on my "mentality"
instead of using email?  (You know, Joseph, the little 'r' key on your
Amiga keyboard -- you do USE your Amiga to read News, don't you?) 

>	Now I see it!  Multitasking means running a batch job on BOTH
>computers at the SAME time!  You're right:  it's a waste.
>

Glad you agree.  Do you have a degree in Computer Science?  Is this what
they teach at your University?

-- David Meile

Some people.  Send replies via email.  I may even read 'em.