Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Summary: multiple simultaneous execution of an application = good?
Message-ID: <338@censor.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 21:35:53 GMT
References: <3031@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <5906@super.ORG>
Organization: Bell Canada, Business Development, Toronto
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In article <5906@super.ORG>, rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
...
> heck, i think it is simple. Real multitasking means i can start up 
> as many copies of ProWrite, or TeX, or whatever, as i want. 
...
Careful here, a lot of applications can't be run as multiple
copies at once.

> very limitation in Microsoft Windows. And i do know some mac junkies
> who argue that the MultiFinder limitation is a feature (!).
...
Well for some of the ones on the Amiga it *is* a feature.  If the
application can handle multiple documents/sessions/??? at once,
having multiple copies of the executable in RAM can just hog
unnecessary memory.  Other times it's a case of the application
grabbing exclusive rights to a resource so a second copy can't
get it, or a dumber bug.

> ron

P.S. I find the limitations of multifinder *very* frustrating, that's
only one reason why the Amy is the computer for the rest of me :^)
A/UX is getting better though.  My fingers are itching for Amix.