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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: <3805@ames.arpa>
Date: 3 Jan 88 04:38:13 GMT
References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <22237@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <8155@prls.UUCP> <7909@e.ms.uky.edu> <3279@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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[". . .which hung in the air, precisely the way bricks don't"]

In article <3279@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>
> But I still insist that, for the non "power user" there's no need for it.
>
>-- Dave Meile

	  "well, I for one know, that the 'average' person just
	   doesn't Need a telephone!" - latter 19th century

          "The 'average' person just doesn't need a disk drive,
	   a cassette recorder will do just fine" - 1979

          "Well, when we were designing this thing, Jay asked 
	   'So, how much memory do you think people will put
	   on this thing?' We all looked at each other, and said
	   that NO ONE would ever have any need for more than 512K.
	   So he gave the graphic chips 19 pin addressing."

				Dale Luck (I think) explaining the
				origins of Chip memory.


-- 
				   *** 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]