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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <873@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 00:45:27 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: The user doesn't need to know you're multitasking (hee, hee).


<< no use for multitasking in the home >>

Heck, Susan and John Averageuser don't even have to know that
multitaksing is going on behind thier innocent unsuspecting backs.
There are a lot of places where multitasking can be of use to us
programmers and we don't even have to let the public in on our
secret.

Here's just an idea.  How about a sooper-dooper word processor with
mind boggling scrolling and true multicolumn text display, etc.
What John and Susan don't have to know is that while they are
hunting and pecking their way through the current screen that a
sneaky little task has been spawned to compose the adjacent
screens.  When the Averageusers scroll up or down *poof* (!) the
next screen appears virtually instantaneously.  "Hey Jack, NIFTY
Amiga you've got!  I wonder why my Eye Bee Umm can't do that.  I
keep hearing about OS/2 but I just can't afford it and the 2
two-megabyte option cards its gunna take to run it.  Garsh!"

Case closed.


Happy Holidays!
--Bill