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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <583@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 15:42:12 GMT
References: <2168@crash.cts.com> <3256@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <323@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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Summary: uh, about those "8-bit machines..."

In article <323@lakesys.UUCP>, mark@lakesys.UUCP (Mark Storin) writes:
> If all he ever needs is simple word processing or file keeping then he can
> find those in the simplest of computers (8-bit machines like Apples and
> Atari's)...

I agree with Mr. Storin's main point fully, and moreover think that Joe
Average will, unless he's very careful, actually *learn* something about
what his computer can do and take advantage of multitasking eventually,
but--I think that a visit to a friend or neighbor with a CoCo 3 running
OS-9 will show that one can have multitasking on an 8-bit machine.  (Much
less a visit to a place with a dozen folks hacking merrily away on a
Gimix 6809-based computer.)

		James Jones