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From: exodus@uop.edu (G. Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Message-ID: <892@uop.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 88 01:34:47 GMT
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Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
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Summary: Why bother??  Insecure or something?


What are we trying to prove here?  Two similar machines (processor, memory,
NO FLAMES ABOUT CUSTOM CHIPS!) that run many similar programs, right?  

And since does the ST not multi-task?  Are you Amiga owners so brain-dead
that you do not realize that OS-9, Idris, Minix, and a couple of custom
ports paid for by European firms (and not for commercial use) are _all_
multi-tasking Operating Systems (And _STANDARDS_ at that, unlike the Amiga
kernal [or whatever you would like to call it]).

I'd prefer to write truly portable (System V) applications than to compile,
edit, and listen to a glorified music box at the same time.

Summary:  Both systems can multi-task, Commodore does not have a monopoly
	  on this feature.  As soon as an Amiga can make the Sun-4 obsolete,
	  call me and I may find it worth buying.  Until then, I  am sick 
	  of reading Amiga owners' comments about what their computer can do
	  and my computer supposedly cannot.