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From: wilde@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Nick Wilde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
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Date: 14 Feb 89 04:33:52 GMT
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>In <3031@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
)the Amiga really does have multitasking? Preferably this should be
)in the form of a discussion like "can you do this?" that wouldn't
)require a computer to be present.

Load up your favorite term program. Call up the local mainframe
or BBS. Download a large file or upload that report you composed
at home and want printed on the laser printer. Gonna take awhile ?
Not to worry. Start editing a letter to Mom, playing a game, fooling
around with your spreadsheet, whatever.. Leave a window on the
upload/download in the corner so you can see whats happening..