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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga is NOT a multi-tasking computer system !!
Keywords: computer chronicles
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Date: 24 Aug 88 21:52:25 GMT
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In article <120@tityus.UUCP> jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) writes:
>This past weeks' Computer Chronicles show was all about 
>*MULTI-TASKING*...There were displays of most all the upcoming platforms 
>that we have heard of from Big Blue and Apple. There was
>*zero* mention of the Amiga...How can the Amiga be skipped in this ??

Just thought you might be interested that in BYTE magazine, that den of
IBM and occasional Apple articles, (July issue, preview of Sun386i),
Senior Technical Editor Tom Thompson wrote (about the history of
multitasking in microcomputers) (quoted without permission): 

"The Commodore Amiga came with a multitasking kernel from the start,
but its baroque command set, low-resolution display, and lack of
hardware memory protection makes using it a chore at best."

Not exactly a glowing review, not quite fair or accurate, but we DID
get mentioned.  I won't bother to address his criticisms, we all know
the Truth.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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