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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: <161@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 07:00:10 GMT
References: <3256@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <2598@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Copper Electronics,  Louisville, Ky.
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Summary: Real example I ran into today.

In article <2598@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:

	[conversation ommitted]

>     2) Most of us are notoriously short on foresight, like I was when I
> thought that 64K and a floppy drive was the epitomy of computing (after all, I
> can do everything you can, right? I can process words, play games, etc.?).
> --
> Eric Lee Green  elg@usl.CSNET        Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191       
> {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg            Lafayette, LA 70509             
> "There's someone in my head, but it's not me...." -PF

Speaking of being short on foresight, it was only today that I was modifying
my handy dandy disk re-organizer program (Devices are a pain!) and guess what?
I was trying to ^XF (save and finish up) out of Emacs and was out of disk space.
How many of you have ever told an editor you were finished, fallen short of disk
space, and lost everything because the editor was not taught social graces?  I'm
sure I'm not the only one.  
Solution?  Use my MULTITASKING Amiga to clean out some disk space before I 
	clicked on the retry block of the requestor.  
Result? I didn't kill my entire family due to the frustration of losing my 
	program.
Moral?  Even though nearly anything can be simulated with proper programming on
	a non M-T system, it rarely is.  Many programmers take short cuts which
	do not allow for mistakes.  M-T'ing systems are like insurance in case
	your favorite program has problems.

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