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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <6405@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 17:30:46 GMT
References: <2225@van-bc.UUCP> <89581@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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In article <89581@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>I expect multitasking will evolve in much the same way. People will get
>it and use it just like they used hard disks originally, like a giant
>floppy. Run a program, exit, run another. After a while they will do
>something that they couldn't do before, nor even thought of doing before
>and the light will go on. Poof, converted for life. 

I suspect the majority of netters out there started out computing on
mainframes or super-minis or someothing.  Probably a lot of DEC Vax and
PDP-11 expertise out there.  And we all have our Unix boxes.  All these
are multi-tasking machines.

However, I still get the biggest kick out of the Amiga that is currently
sitting behind me, compiling a program.  I have one window in the editor,
another in the CLI.  And sometimes I have one more running vt100 or
asteriods or something (if I'm at home).

And every time I do this, I just stop and look and bounce around windows
awhile and say "Wow...."

Something about all that power sitting in a little window on your desk.

-Joe
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