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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <1805@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 16:16:09 GMT
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Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <386@antares.UUCP> pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
>On my Amiga, I never have to stop what I am doing in order to format disks.
>On the AT&T PC at work, formatting and backups generally mean wasted time.
You can also format as many floppies as you 
have drives on the Amiga. I have done this when I needed to format
a bunch on floppies at once. It is fast than one at a time,
but not twice as fast, since the disk controller is not multitasking :-(



porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu