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From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <455@m10ux.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 20:29:38 GMT
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Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
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In article <3280@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>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.
>-- David Meile

Whoa there, Dave.  Joe may have been a little vicious, but he does have a
point.  Long ago (like, in the 60's), people figured out that multi-tasking
was better than non-multi-tasking, and the only reason that personal computers
didn't do it it is because they weren't powerful enough.  With the latest
crop of PC's (80x86, 680x0, 32xxx) that restriction is gone.  It's only a 
matter of time before everything swaps.

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