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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: "multitasking"
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Date: 20 Jun 88 22:32:08 GMT
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In article <8806200247.aa09779@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>>Well, why does anyone want multi-tasking in the first place?  I mean
>>*REALLY*?  Think about it...
>Gee, I discovered the solution to that a couple of years ago.  It's called
>a //c!  You just buy one (from 47th Computer - it'll cost you MUCH less
>that the DRAM and hassle multi-processing on a IIgs would involve) 
Well, I did that (I have a //e and ][+), but now I find that I want to do 5
things at the same time (word processing, MIDI music composition, home control,
voice mail, packet radio BBS, phone BBS, and dialing to work.)

The granularity of rebooting is a bit too slow and destructive for this mix of
applications, so I really want things co-resident, and maybe doing something 
when I'm not 'working' on the main thing.
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					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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