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From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <3804@ames.arpa>
Date: 3 Jan 88 03:47:30 GMT
References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <2969@cbmvax.UUCP> <3243@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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In article <3243@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
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>The "average user" would be satisfied with a desk accessory, while the

Just who is this "average user" by the way?? Is there some ANSI standard
committee which is formulating the official "SU 88" specs
Computer Companies are supposed to follow??

>I find that I get to do many little things around the house while I'm in
>a terminal session.  I can catch up on my reading, prepare dinner, change
>record albums, everything except un-ARC files I'm downloading (which is
>about the only thing I'd do if I owned a multi-tasking system).
>
>Face it, most of us are (for the most part) linear beings.

We are huh? Right now I'm cooking dinner, typing on my computer and 
listening to Prairie Home Companion on the radio. Sounds like multi-tasking
to me.

Don't forget that users who are running a single program could very well
be multi-tasking and not know it. For instance, color-cycling in
Graphic Craft spawned a subtask and operated independently. I believe that
Word Perfect's printer module is a separate program from the editor, at
least on the Amiga. 



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				   *** mike (powered by M&Ms) smithwick ***
"if peanut oil comes from peanuts, and olive oil comes from
olives, where does baby oil come from?"  ---  Lily Tomlin
[discalimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]