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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Computer Chronicles strikes again!
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Date: 16 Apr 88 19:21:43 GMT
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In article <1106@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
><< Multitask non Amigas >>
>... 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.

	Actually, MultiFinder doesn't require much muscle -- just a LOT of
memory.  On a 1 Meg Mac SE I can run Word 3.01 and Versatrerm 3.0 at the
same time -- but I can't print on a LaserWriter untill I quit from one of
the programs.  Let's see if I can run Handshake and WordPerfect after
turning off my 1 Meg Insider (leaving me with 512K on my 1000) and Facc II ...,
Ooops, OK -- make a temporary directory in RAM:, (just  t r y , doing
that on a Mac :-), load a 19 page document, [additional task switching here],
Oops, no printer driver, ... bail out?  Not yet -- let's try again.  Hung.

	[Reboot here and log back on.  Did I also mention that my Mac has a
20 Meg hard disk but only two floppies on me Amiga?]

	OK, this time I'll have WP be the system disk from the start ...
Loadup that there 19 page paper,  ... there she goes!  Printing that sucker
from a spool file even as I type this on the Vax at work using HandShake.
That temporary directory is back in Ram: too.

	So, I think it's safe to say the Mac SE/Plus with 1 Meg isn't as
resource efficient as the Amiga with 512K.

	Now, let's load up that there HyperCard ...  :->

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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