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From: droid@mcrware.UUCP (Andy Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
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Date: 24 Dec 87 21:08:51 GMT
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> 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

	I normally avoid religious wars, but this is too much.  Just who are
these mythical "non-power-users" that don't need multi-tasking.  Everyone
is trying to convince you that they don't exist.  I'll tell you what.
You show joe user what muti-tasking can do and then tell him that he is
too unsophisticated to use it.  Then duck.  Manufacturers who underestimate
buyers go out of business.  If "joe user" couldn't use multi-tasking, we
would not have kludgo simulations (TSR's, desk accessories, etc.).  As one
of my co-workers posted, it is only a matter of education.  Joe user expects
magic from a computer.  As soon as he realizes a computer can't do two things
at once, like he can, he'll be unhappy.  He wants multi-tasking.

	And I'm not picking a bone for the Amiga over the Atari. Note my employer.
We only support one of those two machines.  And its not the Amiga.

Sorry, no cute signature file.
Andy Nicholson
"Opinions expressed here were placed by Christmas elves trying to get me into
trouble."

Merry X-MAS!