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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <2643@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 87 17:59:30 GMT
References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: huh ?

Ah that English sense of humor...

In article <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
>
>Time for a bit of heresy, I thought.  I'm well aware of what multi-tasking
>does and doesn't do for you.  I use it all the time on the mini's and
>mainframes at work.  Nice.

And you still can't see the usefullness ?

>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.  I suspect (OPINION, MINE, MY VERY OWN) that
>the same is true of the usage patterns of MOST home machines -- and, again,
>I emphasize that I think this present group is unrepresentative, and very
>much a minority.

*Any two* Geesh, How about two editors ? How about five editors ? How
about An editor and a c compile ? How about a modem program and a compile and
an editor ? etc. etc. etc. 

>(And, maybe I'll feel differently if I ever manage to save enough pennies
>to buy a hard disk -- or, maybe even a couple of Meg of RAMDISK would do.)

Well thats just it isn't it ? The less resources you have, the more you
have to know what you are doing to extract the most utility from them.

I leave you to draw your own conclusion.

Details on request.


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