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From: dan-hankins@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in cinema (again)
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Date: 16 Sep 88 05:02:20 GMT
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     I use multitasking 100% of the time.  I wouldn't buy a computer without
it.  Just as a couple of for instances:

1. I edit all my Usenet articles by running MicroGnuEmacs and a CLI window
   and DiskMan (soon Browser) concurrently with my terminal program.  This
   frees me from the tyranny of the editors available on my host (vi and
   ed).  I often run other programs at the same time that Xmodem data
   transfers are taking place.  I never want to go back to sitting and
   waiting for the machine to finish what it's doing before I can start
   another task

2. MetaScope.  I don't have it but I've seen it in operation.

3. I've even formatted disks and transferred Xmodem data simultaneously.

There's a large market out there for multitasking, once people get ahold
of the idea that the computer is more than a single entity.  Often I extol
the virtues of multitask, and I get back "I can't do more than one thing
at a time.  So why should I need such a thing on my computer?"  The answer
is that people are still thinking of a computer as a single machine or
entity.  Multitasking becomes more attractive when people grasp the idea
that an Amiga is really like having a whole *department* of people working
for you.  Suddenly they see how silly it is to ask Bill to transfer a file,
and have to wait for Bill to finish before asking Bob to format a disk.


Dan Hankins