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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Computer Chronicles strikes again!
Message-ID: <1106@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 19:27:42 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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<< Multitask non Amigas >>

Yeah, I'd like to know where the heck the Amiga was on that show --
especially after they did an entire show on the Amiga a few weeks
ago.  I guess they felt that a whole half hour on the Amiga was
sufficient representation for the rest of the season.

I guess it is indicitive of the typical pinstripe computing
prejudice:  The Mac and the Amiga are strictly for artsy-fartsy
individuals, while 80x86 processor based stuff is for what they
consider to be legitimate business.  The Mac probably got passing
mention for multifinder since the Mac runs Excell, a "legitimate"
business program.  Artsy-fartsy individuals, obviously, don't need
multitasking. :-)

As for a point of interest, much to my surpise windows 386 does
work pretty well and does honest multitasking, but it doesn't do
the job well without a PS/2 80, 6 meg of memory and a 70 meg hard
disk.  Alternatively, the Amiga performs pretty well with just two
880K floppies and 768K (256K rom + 512K ram).  I don't know how
much muscle multifinder needs, but I'll bet it isn't as resource -
efficient as the Amiga either.

--Bill