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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <1966@pur-phy>
Date: 12 Feb 89 02:04:58 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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There are/is multitasking available within MSDOS, but only in a limited way
through the use of something like Windows 386 or Desqview 386.  However, you
must have a well behaved program to use these programs.  I have written
some
code to do a graphics simlulation of coupled oscillators both on the IBM and the
Amiga,  Which one do you think worked better?  The Amiga! Since my code wrote
to the screen with the graphis library in MSC5.1 and Borland's Turbo Pascal5.0,
It broke under both Desqview and Windows 386.  TO FIX it, I will have to buy the
Application Programmer's Interface for one or the other windowing interface.

I hate to feel as though MSDOS was one big mistake, but why should someone
have to spend ~$600 just to get multitasking and graphics?  Vive Le Amiga!!
To me the biggest plus to the Amiga is the built in libraries for Intuition
Graphics, Exec, ...  A programmer should not have to spend major $$$ to get
access to hooks in an operating system or windowing package (ala OS/2 and 
Windows and Desqview).  Oh well, This is not meant to start a flame war, I'm
just ticked that my research is locked into a PC based lab which requires me
to use MSDOS.
Bill Murphy