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From: alex@.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <492@.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 18:35:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: .492
Posted: Thu Jan  7 13:35:01 1988
References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <1378@husc2.UUCP>
Organization: Xicom Technologies, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: There are many


 In article <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
 >
 >I can't think of *any* two tasks which I do on my home machine which
 >take enough time to make m/p profitable, and which could co-exist sensibly
 >with only two floppy drives. 

 What about formatting a floppy while you are running your Word-Processor, and
 your floppy is full? What I like is the ability in Multi-tasking systems, is
 the ability to SUSPEND, and not just ABORT a program, when I need to
 interrupt.

 It's pretty arrogant to say that because I can't think of any, that [insert
 any feature] is useless!

 While your floppy disk configuration limits you, this still limits you in a
 single-task O.S. It is irrelevant to multi-tasking versus single-tasking!
 There are lots of tasks that even if you do a Terminate and Stay-Resident,
 will need you to swap disks, if you are out of room, etc. Batch files that
 have hard-coded drive designations will still be a problem if you have other
 floppys in place.
-- 
Alex Laney   alex@xicom.UUCP   ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex
Xicom Technologies, 205-1545 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
We may have written the SNA software you use.
The opinions are my own.