Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Dealers/Commodore Message-ID: <201@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Date: 30 Jul 88 00:14:13 GMT References: <3546@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore Lines: 29 In article <3546@louie.udel.EDU> FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa writes: >In article <4353@cbmvax.UUCP> Marc Rifkin CATS > >>>Oh yeah, don't forget the cocoIII running OS9 Level II. CBM should >> >>Oh yeah, but RUNNING OS9. Amiga does not have to *RUN* anything in order >>to multitask. And since mtasking is its native mode, most (I wish I could >>say all) programs support it. > >It seems to me that the the Amiga has to *RUN* its operating system in order >to multitask. It's the Amiga's Operating System which is multitasking, not >the Amiga hardware. > >Mark Fausett >arpa: fausett@radc-tops20.arpa >------- The Amiga operating system is in ROM. You could argue that that is *RUN* everytime you turn the machine on, but I think you would be just trying to be argumentative about something that is a fact! -+= SAM =+- "the best things in life are free" ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov FILLER FILLER FILLER FILLER