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From: Michael_M_Butler@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
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Date: 19 Feb 88 07:23:17 GMT
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Get real.  DAs are just bogus fake multitasking.  What Multitasking buys you
in a robust OS, with some reasonable odds of not crashing, is a "MIX 'N' MATCH"
approach, a la carte, versus "It'll do everything you want: err, whay would you
want to do *that*?" (aka "Integrated Software Packages").

Ten months ago, as I was saying goodbye to some friends in a Minneapolis C=A
dealer's sales room, I overheard a serious-sounding customer off in the far
corner, talking to the salesguy: "...don't think I'll *ever* need more than
two meg..."

I grin.  MT is the same story.

Now, if only C=A had had the sense to lay some *good* "DA"-like code and utils
on us, all of which used clipboards, with public availability of the critical
sourcecode...  Naah, never mind.  They should have done that two years ago.

Michael [my fancy trailer bar is at the cleaners] Butler
Xanadu Operating Company / Palo Alto, CA