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From: lharris@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Leonard Harris)
Date: Fri, 25-Dec-87 14:13:57 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec25.141357.16689@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A different view on multitasking.
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Reply-To: lharris@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Leonard Harris)

When I started working as an advisor at UofT,  TSO was the main system besides
batch card jobs through JCL.  Back then if you mentioned a Micro, you were laued
at and told they could never do what a BIG machine could do.  Too bad I have
to use unix on a this SUN toy now instead of a 370  !!
Whats this have to do with multi-tasking?  I'm not sure but the whole argument
seems kinda stupid.  Buy what you want.  I have an atari for games and an IBM
for programming and cad work.  It would be really nice to have a multitasking
Sun 3  but I can get by on less.  If multitasking would force(?) programmers
to produce better code then I'm all for it !