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Date: 29 Jan 89 17:24:00 GMT
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Peter da Silva writes:


>People don't mind a database taking 10% longer to look something up >if
you can still use the computer while it's doing it.

What people?

Sure there are times (at least for me) when multitasking would be worth
a 10% decrease in performance, however, more often do I want that extra
oomf than being able to do whatever while the computer looks something
up.  I usually am only doing one thing at a time.  I am maybe writing a
report for school, programming, or playing with the Cyber stuff and
there is no need for multitasking there--but there is a need for speed.
Sometimes I'll forget to do something say run something off on the
printer before I go to class--because of the ST's speed I can boot from
a floppy, load my word processor, print my document, and not be late for
school!


Aric Friesen

"Hypnotism; the programming language for people."

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