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From: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <3003@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 14:41:54 GMT
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Summary: at last ...

In article <3279@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>In article <7909@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>>
>>to be killed.  Oh, and I don't know for certain if Amiga can
>>do what I just said -- my 2000 hasn't arrived yet :-).  But
>>my CoCoIII with OS-9 could do exactly that.  (and I did exactly
>
>Of course, you can get OS-9 (and IDRIS) for the Atari ST.  So there.  You
                                                            ^^^^^^^^
>can multi-task to your hearts content, regardless of the machine.  BUT I
>still insist that, for the non "power user" there's no need for it.
>
>-- Dave Meile

From his first posting on this subject, I wondered why Mr. Meile brought it
up at all. It's not like someone asked for a poll regarding the usefulness
of multitasking. His "so there." comment seems to imply a certain degree of
envy of the Amiga users who like to discuss (yes, and brag too) the merits
of multitasking. At least, he appears to have a need to defend himself in
some way about not having it.

I don't think anyone here would argue that multitasking is necessary. One
doesn't NEED icons and desktop metaphors either. But advances such as these
help make computers easier and more productive for non-power users. And
multitasking is desirable from the systems development viewpoint as
distributed processing, resource sharing, and other features become more
sophisticated.

Personally, I'd like to commend and thank the members of comp.sys.amiga for
not degenerating this topic to the "my computer is better than yours"
syndrome that Mr. Meile seems to have wanted to provoke. We all like our
particular computers or we wouldn't have purchased them: that's a given
assumption. And we all have different factors for making our purchasing
decision.
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