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From: jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <152@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 00:53:06 GMT
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Organization: Copper Electronics,  Louisville, Ky.
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Summary: More multitasking ideas...

And of course there is the "My wife will beat me if I don't do so-and-so at
6:00 pm so I'd better put up my alarm clock program in the background while
I play this game/write this paper."

I have a friend who was one of the (if not THE) very first Amiga owner in
Louisville who had a very legitimate m/t usage:
	1. Running a word processor to modify a program he was writing.
	2. Running Lattice to compile the code.
	3. Running a previous version of the code to find deeply hidden bugs.
	4. Running a terminal program to occasionally chat with his friends
	   who were using a local system's version of forum (like CB Simulator).

Sounds like a very productive use of one's time to me.  I can't stand to use
some of the other "home" computers from time to time that don't even have
keyboard type-ahead, muchless multitasking ability.

Jim Sewell		                      	Disclaimer: "These opinions
"Make knowledge free!"				   are my own.  You are free
						   to disagree, but don't try
						   to tell me mine are wrong."